Seljuk
Provinces. When Ala-ed-din, the last Sultan of
Rum, died (1307), the empire was divided into ten
parts, each independent of the other. The
provinces, in most cases, took' the names of
their chiefs, and these names are still those of
Turkish vilayets and sanjaks. Karasi ruled
in Mysia; Sam Khan in Lydia; Aidin in
Moeonia; Menteshe in Caria; Tekke in
Lycia and Parnphylia; Hamid in Pisidia and
Isauria; Mahmud,
of the Karaman family, in Lycaonia; Osman
in Galatia and Bithynia; Kermian in
Phrygia; and Ghazi Chelebi, of the Seljuk
royal line, in Paphlagonia. The only provinces
that deserve special notice are those of Karaman
and Osman.
Handbook
for Travellers Asia Minor, Trancaucsia, Persia,
Etc… Edited By Major-General, Sir Charles
Wilson, R.E, K.C.B.
London (UK): John Murray, Albemarle Street 1896.
Sinope,
an independent Seljuk state
(1461), and
Uzun Hasan left him in the lurch. He surrendered
on the offer of favourable treatment; but he was
not more fortunate than the King of Bosnia; he
and his family were afterwards put to death. At
the same time Mohammad seized Genoese Amastris,
and likewise Sinope, an independent Seljuk state:
and thus he became master of the whole southern
board of the Pontic Sea.