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13-482: Originally, the place where Susurluk is now located was an empty area of forest and swamp belonging to Karasi Bey . Under Bey's grandchildren, it was managed as a farm called Susığırlık. Later, in 1634, with raiders coming from Karaman, Hacı Hatip Oğulları, settled here. While Susığırlık was only a farm, it began to serve as a rest stop for caravans passing to Bursa and Istanbul. Later, it became crowded with Bulgarian and Caucasian immigrants who migrated to Anatolia during

26-677: A sufficient evidence for a connection. Clifford Edmund Bosworth described the theory connecting the dynasty to the Danishmendids as "almost certainly legendary". Later Ottoman sources referred to Karasi as a nöker (vassal) during the first reign of Mesud II ( r.  1284–97, 1303–8 ), the Sultan of Rum . Kalam and Karasi Bey are thought to have taken over the region around Balıkesir during Mesud's reign and claimed independence at an unknown date. Fifteenth century Byzantine Greek historian Doukas wrote that they appeared in

39-592: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Karasi Bey Kara Isa Beg better Known as Karasi Bey ( Turkish : Karesi Bey ; died c.  1328 ), attested as Carases by Nicephorus Gregoras , was the eponymous Bey of the Karasids in northwestern Anatolia . Karasi and his father Kalam are thought to have seized the frontier of the Byzantine Empire near the ancient Mysia , excluding coastal regions, at an uncertain date. Karasi

52-533: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ramon Muntaner Ramon Muntaner ( Catalan pronunciation: [rəˈmom muntəˈne] ) (1265 – 1336) was a Catalan mercenary and writer who wrote the Crònica , a chronicle of his life, including his adventures as a commander in the Catalan Company . He was born at Peralada . The Catalan Company was an army of light infantry under

65-497: Is absent from the chronicles of contemporary authors other than Gregoras. Later Ottoman sources described him as a nöker (vassal) of Sultanate of Rum , during the first reign of Mesud II ( r.  1284–97, 1303–8 ). Karasi likely died before 1328, when his son Demir Khan is known to have signed an agreement with the Byzantine Empire. The father of Karasi (or Carases as attested by Nicephorus Gregoras )

78-703: The Lamisai mentioned by Pachymeres and the Calames (Karasi's father Kalam) of Nicephorus Gregoras . Following the Byzantine campaign in western Anatolia allied with Catalan Company and Alans between 1302 and 1308, Karasi expanded into Lesser Mysia and reached south bordering the Sarukhanids . In 1311, Karasi is also known to have laid support to the Sari Saltuk tribe led by Ece Halil who clashed with

91-458: The 1858 and 1878 Turkish-Russian war and Turkmen tribes that were later settled by Ahmed Vefik Pasha . On 3 November 1996 a car crash in the town made news headlines as the dead and injured included a parliamentary deputy, a right-wing gang leader, a former beauty queen and a senior police officer. The resulting political and social turmoil has come to be known as the Susurluk scandal , and

104-558: The Byzantine Empire in Thrace . Karasi Bey accepted troops who survived the struggle to take refuge in his realm. Karasi is thought to have died before 1328, when his son Demir Khan made an agreement with the Byzantines. Some researchers set the year as 1334 or 1336 based on later Ottoman sources, which attested to the death of a Karasid ruler, Ajlan. Although Cahen proposed Ajlan as the nickname of Karasi, these sources referred to Ajlan as

117-623: The accident was described as definite proof of a link between politics, organized crime and the bureaucracy, known in Turkish as the derin devlet (" deep state "). Several people, including three former special forces members, were convicted of illegal activities and served prison terms. There are 54 neighbourhoods in Susurluk District: This geographical article about a location in Balıkesir Province , Turkey

130-691: The leadership of Roger de Flor that was made up of Aragonese and Catalan mercenaries, known as Almogavars ; Roger led the Company to Constantinople to help the Greeks against the Turks. For a lapse of time (1308-1315) he was governor of Djerba after its conquest by the Crown of Aragon . Ramon Muntaner's Crònica is one of the four Catalan Grand Chronicles through which the historian views thirteenth- and fourteenth century military and political matters in

143-577: The region during the rule of the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II ( r.  1282–1328 ). It corresponded to the ancient region of Mysia , excluding the towns of Artaki , Pegae , Adramytion , Pergamon , and Dardanellia . However, Cahen proposes that the state appeared much later as medieval writers Ramon Muntaner and George Pachymeres do not mention the Karasids. Cahen disputes historian Mordtmann's connection of

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156-598: The son of Karasi, whereas Karasi's son Yakhshi is also known as Ajlan. There is a türbe (tomb) dedicated to Karasi in the Mustafa Fakih neighborhood of the town of Balıkesir, in proximity to the Pasha Mosque. The tomb houses five additional graves, along with Karasi's, reputed to be of his sons. Karasi's sarcophagus is ornamented with inscriptions in the Kufic script. This Turkish biographical article

169-609: Was Kalam (referred to as Calames by Gregoras), who was the son of Yaghdi Bey. The epitaphs of members of the Karasi family in Tokat , Kutlu Melek and his son Mustafa Chelebi, tie their ancestry to the Danishmendids , a dynasty who ruled over northeastern Anatolia during the 11–12th centuries. Modern historian Claude Cahen holds that the homonymy between the central Anatolian family and the dynasty in northwestern Anatolia may not be

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