Ibrahim I Of Ramadanids
Sarim al-Din Ibrahim I (died 1384) was Beg of Ramadan in south-central Anatolia from until his death. Following the death of his father Ramadan, Ibrahim came to Damascus to do homage to the Mamluk Sultan who acknowledged him as his father's successor. Soon after, Ibrahim allied himself with Ghars al-Din Khalil (), the ruler of the Dulkadirids, in an attempt to seize Sis. The Mamluk governor of Aleppo was assigned to suppress the rebellion but was defeated by other local lords. The Mamluks recognized Ibrahim's authority in 1381 and made him the (viceroy) of Adana two years later. Ibrahim later again attacked Sis but the local Mamluk had him captured and executed. His brother Ahmed succeeded him. Early life and background Much of southern Anatolia was originally controlled by the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, which gradually began losing its domains to the Mamluk Sultanate, allied with local Turkmens, at the turn of the 14th century. During this time, two major Turkmen confede ...
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Ramadanid Emirate
The Ramadanid Emirate ( Modern Turkish: ''Ramazanoğulları Beyliği'') was a Turkish autonomous administration and a ''de facto'' independent emirate that existed from 1352 to 1608 in Cilicia, taking over the rule of the region from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. The emirate was a protectorate of the Mamluk Sultanate until the end of the 14th century, then it was de facto independent for more than a century, and then, from 1517, a protectorate of the Ottoman Empire. The capital was Adana. The Ramadanid Emirate was the only emirate in Anatolia that was not a successor of the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate. It is often misclassified as an Anatolian beylik, though it was an entity under the Mamluks. Cilicia was part of the Seljuks for a short time around the turn of the 11th century and thus was not affected by the Sunni tariqa expansionism of the 13th century. In the late 14th century, the Yüreğir Turks moved to Cilicia and had a distinct culture with influence from Bektashi tra ...
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