Karaman is a city in south central Turkey , located in Central Anatolia , north of the Taurus Mountains , about 100 km (62 mi) south of Konya . It is the seat of Karaman Province and Karaman District . Its population is 175,390 (2022). The town lies at an average elevation of 1,039 m (3,409 ft). The Karaman Museum is one of the major sights.
22-1164: Karamanlis or Karamanli may refer to: someone or something from Karaman , Turkey People [ edit ] The Karamanlis political family of Greece ( Καραμανλής ) George Karamanlis [ el ] (1880-1932), Greek teacher Konstantinos Karamanlis (1907–1998), former President and Prime Minister of Greece Kostas Karamanlis (born 1956), nephew of Konstantinos, former Prime Minister of Greece Anastasia Pazaiti-Karamanli (born 1966), better known as Natasa Pazaïti , wife of Kostas Achilleas Karamanlis [ el ] (born 1932), son of George and brother of Konstantinos, MP 1974-2009 and government minister Kostas Karamanlis (born 1974), son of Achilleas, MP since January 2015 Anna Karamanli , Greek sportswoman and politician Marietta Karamanli (born 1964), French politician Karamanli dynasty (Turkish: Karamanlı ) of Ottoman Tripolitania Ahmed Karamanli (1686–1745), dynasty's founder and pasha of Tripolitania Yusuf Karamanli (1766–1838), pasha of Tripolitania Places [ edit ] Karamania (region) ,
44-471: A toponymic surname for the town. Karaman has a cold semi-arid climate under Köppen climate classification ( BSk ) and a continental climate under the Trewartha climate classification ( Dc ), with hot, dry summers and cold, snowy winters. Karaman is generally very sunny, with almost 3000 hours of sunshine per year. Karaman Bey Karim al-Dīn Ḳarāmān Beg was a Turkoman chieftain who ruled
66-552: A historical Turkish dynasty in Asia Minor Stella Karamanlis , a character in the American miniseries The Pacific See also [ edit ] Karaman (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Karamanlis . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
88-635: A mosque from Karaman can now be found in the Çinili Pavilion near the Archeology Museum in Istanbul . The Karamanslis were Cappadocian Turkomans who fought the Ottomans. Later they integrated into the empire. There was a Roman Catholic titular see for the city. The poet Yunus Emre ( c. 1238–1320 ) resided in Karaman during his later years and is believed to lie buried beside
110-545: A region of Asia Minor in Turkey Karamanlı, Burdur , a district of Burdur Province, Turkey Qaramanlı , Yevlakh Rayon, Azerbaijan Qaramanlı, Neftchala (disambiguation) , several places in Azerbaijan Other uses [ edit ] Karamanlides , a Turkish-speaking Eastern Orthodox Christian group Karamanli Turkish , a dialect of Turkish historically spoken by the group Karamanids ,
132-504: A surprise attack to Konya. But he was defeated in the battle of Gevele (west of Konya). Both of his brothers were killed and he escaped to his territory. It is believed that he died shortly after the battle. He was succeeded by Mehmet I . According to the Armenian chroniclers, in one of the battles against king Hethum at the fort Meniaum (probably Mennan near Ermenek) his brother Buñsuz and his brother-in-law were killed (information which
154-650: A woodcutter and timber merchant who brought supplies from the western Taurus to the little town of Laranda. In the struggle between Izz al-Din Kaykaus (1246-1260) and his rival Kilidj Rukn al-Din Arslan IV Karaman supported the first. But Kilidj Rukn al-Din Arslan with the help of Parvaneh ( Parvana ) Sulayman Muin al-Din who was the one who had the real power, and the Mongols , managed to eliminate most of
176-654: Is in contradiction to other sources that say that Buñluz who was amir djandar in Konya was jailed after the death of Karaman), and he himself was wounded and died shortly after, about 1262. Also, some of his children and members of his family were taken prisoners and held in the Gevele fortress near Konya . The central authority was to some extent re-established, at least in Ermenek, where, until 1276, an official Seljukid governor held office without any recorded difficulties. Karaman
198-611: The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and expanded his territory. Good relations between the Seljuqs and the Karamanids did not last. In 1261, on the pretext of supporting Kaykaus II who had fled to Constantinople as a result of the intrigues of the chancellor Pervâne, Karaman Bey and his two brothers, Zeynül-Hac and Bunsuz, marched toward Konya, the capital of Seljuqs, with 20,000 men. A combined Seljuq and Mongol army, led by
220-596: The Karamanids in the 13th century. Ḳarāmān Beg's emergence coincides with the defeat of the Sultanate of Rum by the Mongolian Empire in 1256 and the tension between Kaykaus I and his rival brother Kilij Arslan IV , which allowed local lords living along the boundaries of the state to exercise some autonomy. He was the son of Nûre Sûfî Bey , a Turkish leader from Arran , who established himself in
242-595: The Taurus Mountains near Larandia and who became a Seljuk vassal. Some time before 1256, Karaman Bey officially succeeded his father (who had already left him the effective power several years prior in order to pursue a life in seclusion). In about 1260 Karaman makes his first appearance in the Isaurian-Cilician Taurus regions. Although the points of detail can probably never be determined, it can be accepted that Karaman started life as
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#1732766279022264-584: The Great , after he had defeated Ariarathes I , king of Cappadocia . It later became a seat of Isaurian pirates. At some point it was possessed by Antipater of Derbe . It belonged to the Roman and later Byzantine Empires until it was captured by the Seljuks in the early 12th century. Karaman was occupied by Frederick Barbarossa in 1190 and by the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia between 1211 and 1216. In 1256,
286-611: The Mongols, and the efforts of Rukn al-Din to win the support of the Karamanids were in vain. Karaman Bey expanded his territories by capturing castles in Ermenek , Mut , Ereğli , Gülnar , Mer and Silifke . The year of the conquests as indicated in the Encyclopedia of Islam (vol. IV, page 643) is 1225, during the reign of Ala al-Din Kaykubadh I (1220-1237), which seems excessively early. Karaman Bey's conquests were mainly at
308-658: The Yunus Emre Mosque. A small adjacent park is adorned with quotations from his verse, many of them graffiti -splattered. In 1222, the Sufi preacher Bahaeddin Veled arrived in town with his family, and the Karamanoğlu emir built a madrasah to accommodate them. Veled's son was the famous Rumi , who married his wife, Gevher Hatun, while his family was living in Karaman. It was here, too, that Rumi's mother died in 1224. She
330-646: The chancellor Mu'in al-Din Suleyman, the Pervane, defeated the Karamanid army and captured Karaman Bey's two brothers. In 1261 Kılıç Aslan IV of Seljuks more or less regained strength after his elder brother took refuge in the Byzantine Empire . He began punishing rebellious tribes. Seeing this restoration as a threat to his beylik and anticipating a blow from the sultan, Karaman Bey took initiative by
352-742: The expense of the Kingdom of Lesser Armenia (and perhaps at the expense of Rukn al-Din Kilidj Arslan IV, 1248-1265). He fought against the Armenians on the Isaurian-Cilician borders to such extent that King Hethum I (1226-1269) had to place himself voluntarily under the sovereignty of the great Khan , in order to protect his kingdom from Mamluks and Seljuks (1244). King Hethum I had to intervene several times, and succeeded in repulsing Karaman. He founded his beylik which
374-524: The hostile emirs or begs, but could not capture or kill Karaman and thus, tried to appease him by granting him Larandia and Ermenek and by giving his brother Buñsuz the position of amir djandar in Konya . The fall of Izz al-Din is said to have been one of the causes and possibly was the occasion of or pretext for his uprising. Izz al-Din was regarded, relatively speaking, as an ally of the Turcomans against
396-510: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karamanlis&oldid=1092981578 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Articles containing Greek-language text Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Karaman The town owes its name to Karaman Bey , who
418-456: The town was taken by Karaman Bey and was renamed Karaman in his honour. From 1275, Karaman was the capital of the Karamanid beylik . In 1468 the Karamanids were conquered by the Ottomans and in 1483 the capital of the province was moved to Konya . Karaman has retained ruins of a Karamanid castle and some walls, two mosques and a Koran school ( madrasah ) from that age. A mihrab from
440-668: Was already semiautonomous during his father's reign. The Seljuks , who were their nominal suzerains, were defeated by the Mongols and the Karamans had no problem to settle in the northern slopes of the Toros Mountains close to Konya , the Seljuk capital. The Seljuk Sultan, afraid of the Karamans increasing power, gave him some towns as ikta ( fief) . The city of Karaman (ancient Larende) bears his name. Karaman fought against
462-661: Was buried, along with other family members, in the Aktekke Mosque (also known as the Mader-i Mevlana Cami), which Alaeddin Ali Bey had built to replace the original madrasah in 1370. When Thomas Jefferson fought Libya's Barbary pirates , he replaced one member of the al-Qaramanli dynasty with another as Pasha. The bearers of the Greek name Karamanlis as well as other surnames beginning with "Karaman" are
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#1732766279022484-515: Was one of the rulers of the Karamanid dynasty. The former name Laranda which in turn comes from the Luwian language Larawanda , literally means "sandy, a sandy place". In ancient times, Karaman was known as Lānda in Hittite and Laranda ( Greek : Λάρανδα ). In the 6th century BC it came under Achaemenid rule until 322 BC, when it was destroyed by Perdiccas , a former general of Alexander
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