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Sarukhan (1300/01–1345/46) was a
Turkish Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities and mi ...
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
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, and supported him militarily in two sieges against the
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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