Sahib Ataids (

Modern Turkish Turkish ( , ), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (''Türkiye Türkçesi''), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Significant smal ...

: ''Sâhipataoğulları'' or ''Sâhipataoğulları Beyliği'') was an Anatolian beylik centered in Kara Hisar-i Sâhib (

Afyonkarahisar Afyonkarahisar (, tr, afyon "poppy, opium", ''kara'' "black", ''hisar'' "fortress") is a city in western Turkey, the capital of Afyon Province. Afyon is in the mountainous countryside inland from the Aegean coast, south-west of Ankara along t ...

) and founded by one of the last viziers of the

Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm fa, سلجوقیان روم () , status = , government_type = Hereditary monarchyTriarchy (1249–1254)Diarchy (1257–1262) , year_start = 1077 , year_end = 1308 , p1 = By ...

, Fakhr al-Din Ali, also known as

Sâhib Ata Fakhr al-Din Ali, better known as Sâhib Ata or Sâhip Ata, was a Persian vizier who held a number of high offices at the court of the Sultanate of Rum from the 1250s until his death in 1288. He was the dominant personality in Anatolia after the d ...

. The beylik was founded c.1275 and absorbed by the neighboring

Germiyanids The Germiyanids ( tr, Germiyanoğulları Beyliği or ''Germiyan Beyliği'') was a prominent Anatolian beylik established by the Oghuz Turkish tribes (probably the Afshar tribe) after the decline of Sultanate of Rûm. However, while the beyl ...

in 1341. The Sâhipataoğulları left important works of architecture.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sahipataoglu Anatolian beyliks History of Afyonkarahisar History of Afyonkarahisar Province