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Divriği

Mengücek

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Mengücek (also spelled as Mengüçlü or Mengujek) was an Anatolian beylik of the first period, founded after the Battle of Manzikert. The Mengücek Beylik ruled the regions of Erzincan, Kemah, Şebinkarahisar and Divriği in Eastern Anatolia in the 12th and 13th centuries.

 
Table of Contents
1Mengücek Gazi
2Divriği Great Mosque
3Rulers of Mengücek
4See also
5External links
6Sources

Mengücek Gazi

Little is known about the founder Mengücek Gazi. He was probably one of the commanders sent by the Great Seljuk Sultan Alp Arslan to occupy parts of Anatolia after the victory at Manzikert over the Byzantine Empire, and his principality seems to have been founded in the years following the battle. This beylig was split branches of Erzincan and Divriği after death of Emir İshak in 1142. Erzincan branch was subjugated by Sultanate of Rum in 1228 and Divriği one was ended in 1277 by Ilkhanate.

Divriği Great Mosque

The Mengücek dynasty is remembered primarily for its monuments in Divriği. The Divriği Great Mosque was built in 1228 by Mengücekoğlu Ahmed Shah. The adjoining medical center, or Darüşşifa, was built in the same year by Turan Melek Sultan, daughter of the Mengücek ruler of Erzincan, Fahreddin Behram Shah. Both buildings are on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

Rulers of Mengücek

  • Mengücek Gazi (1072-1118)
  • İshak (1118-1142)

Brach of Erzincan

  • Davudşah (1142-1162)
  • Süleymanşah (1151-1162)
  • Fahrettin Behramşah (1162-1225)
  • Alaeddin Davudşah II (1225-1228)

Branch of Divriği

  • Süleyman (1142-1162)
  • Şahinşah (1162-1198)
  • Süleyman II (1198-1227)
  • Ahmetşah (1227-1251)
  • Melik Salih (1251-1277)
History of TurkeyGeographical Map of Turkey
Seljuq dynasty1071–1325
Great Seljuq Empire1071–1194
Sultanate of Rum1075–1307
• under the Seljuksafter 1071
    Anatolian Beyliks
   • Chaka of Smyrna1081–1098
   • Ahlatshahs1085–1207
   • Danishmend1071–1178
   • Mengücek1072–1277
   • Saltuklu1072-1202
under the Ilkhanate1243–1335
Anatolian Beyliks
Karamanoglu1250–1487
Ottomans1302–1922
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Beylik of Teke1321–1425
Candaroğlu1291–1461
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Eşrefoğlu1285-1326
Eretna1335–1390
Hamidoğlu1300-1391
Kadi Burhan al-Din1381–1398
Karesi1296–1357
Beylik of Lâdik1262–1391
Pervâneoğlu1262–1391
Menteşe1261–1424
Ramazanoğlu1352–1608
Saruhan1300–1410
Ottoman Dynasty1302–1922
Occupation1918–1923
Republic of Turkeyfrom 1923
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See also

External links

Sources

  • (Book cover) Oktay Aslanapa (1991) (in Turkish). Anadolu'da ilk Türk mimarisi: Başlangıcı ve gelişmesi (Early Turkish architecture in Anatolia: Beginnings and development) ISBN 975-16-0264-5. AKM Publications, Ankara. 
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