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Karaman

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Karaman , town (1990 pop. 76,682), S central Turkey, at the northern foot of the Taurus Mts. The ancient Laranda, Karaman was renamed after the chieftain of a Turkic tribe who conquered the city c.1250 and set up the independent Muslim state of Karamania, which at one time comprised most of Asia Minor. A successor state of the Seljuk empire, Karamania existed until its final subjugation by the Ottoman Turks in the late 15th cent. Karaman has retained ruins of the Karamanid castle and of two fine mosques. Author not available, KARAMAN. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition... Read more
Karaman
Karaman, Turkey Larende Named after the Karamanids, a Turcoman tribe, who captured it from the Seljuk Turks in 1261 and developed it as the capital of their emirate, which was analogous to the Roman province of Karamania. Read more
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...late 13th cent. the Seljuks of Iconium were defeated by the Mongols, and their territories subsequently passed to Karamania (see Karaman ). In the 15th cent. the whole region was annexed to the Ottoman Empire by Sultan Muhammad II, the conqueror of... Read more

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