Eretna

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The Eretna Dynasty
Beylik
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Location of The Eretnids
The Eretna Beylik under Eretna
Capital Sivas and Kayseri
Language(s) Persian
Turkic language
Religion Islam
Government Monarchy
Sultan
 - 1336-1352 Eretna b. Jafar, Ala al-Din
 - 1380 Muhammad II Chelebi
History
 - Established 1335
 - Disestablished 1381

Eretna (Turkish plural; Eretnaoğulları) was an Anatolian Turkish Beylik that succeeded the Ilkhanid governors in Anatolia and that ruled in a large region extending between Kayseri, Sivas and Amasya in Central Anatolia between 1328-1381. Although short-lived, the Beylik of Eretna left important works of architecture. The name of Eretna may be derived from Sanskrit word Ratna "Jewel" (Erdene, Эрдэнэ, in Mongolian).[1]

The dynasty's founder, Eretna, was an officer of Uyghur origin in the service of Timurtash, the Ilkhanid governor of Anatolia. After his master unsuccessfully revolted in 1327 to ally with the Mamluks in response to the fate of his father Chupan, Ilkhan Abu Said appointed Eretna a governor of Rum. Eretna was able to establish his own beylik with the title of Sultan under the protection of the Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo) only when the khan died in 1335[2]. After Eretna's death, his lands were nibbled away by the Ottomans in the west and Aq Qoyunlu in the east due to internal disputes between the Eretnids. The Beylik's last ruler, Muhammad II, was replaced by his vizier Kadı Burhaneddin who reigned in the same region for another eighteen years, a period some sources consider as a continuation of the same institutional structure, while other sources treat as being separate.

[edit] List of Eretna rulers

  • Eretna b Jafar, Ala al-Din 1336-1352
  • Muhammad I 1352-1366
  • 'Ali 1366-1380
  • Muhammad II Chelebi 1380

[edit] References

  1. ^ Clifford Edmund Bosworth-The new Islamic dynasties: a chronological and genealogical manual, p.234
  2. ^ Encyclopedia of Mongolia and Mongol Empire, see: Turkey and Mongol Empire

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