
Sarukhan (1300/01–1345/46) was a
Turkish
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Bey of
Magnesia (present-day
Manisa,
Turkey).
Sarukhan was a Turkish Bey who is remembered for his conquest in the
Anatolian Peninsula. In 1313, he occupied
Thyatira (present-day
Akhisar,
Manisa Province), and then left his name "Saruhan" to the region he had occupied, becoming an independent ruler and transmitting the region to his descendants.
''A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730''
edited by M.A. Cook (Cambridge: University Press, 1976), p.16
At one point in 1336, Sarukhan formed an alliance with the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus the Younger
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, caption = 14th-century miniature.Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek.
, succession = Byzantine emperor
, reign = 24 May 1328 – 15 June 1341
, coronation = 2 ...
, and supported him militarily in two sieges against the Genoese
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* Genoese dialect, a dialect of the Ligurian language
* Republic of Genoa (–1805), a former state in Liguria
See also
* Genovese, a surname
* Genovesi, a surname
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, in Mytilene and Phocaea.[Samuel Jacob]
''History of the Ottoman Empire''
(London, 1854), p.308 In 1341 however he attacked Constantinople with a fleet, but was repulsed around the Chersonesus in 1341.
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{{Anatolian Beys
Sarukhanids
Turkic rulers
14th-century monarchs in the Middle East
1346 deaths
1300s births