Sarukhan, Bey of Magnesia

Sarukhan bin Alpagi^{[citation needed]} (1300/01–1345/46) was a Turkish Bey of Magnesia (present-day Manisa, Turkey).^[1]

Sarukhan was a Turkish Emir who is remembered for his conquest in the Anatolian Peninsula. In 1313, he occupied Thyatira (present-day Akhisar, Manisa Province), and then left his name "Saruhan" to the region he had occupied, becoming an independent ruler and transmitting the region to his descendants.^[2]

At one point in 1336, Sarukhan formed an alliance with the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus the Younger, and supported him militarily in two sieges against the Genoese, in Mytilene and Phocaea.^[3] In 1341 however he attacked Constantinople with a fleet, but was repulsed around the Chersonesus in 1341.^[3]

Notes

^ Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The new Islamic dynasties: a chronological and genealogical manual (Edinburgh: University Press, 2004), p.220
^ A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730, edited by M.A. Cook (Cambridge: University Press, 1976), p.16
^ ^a ^b Samuel Jacob, History of the Ottoman Empire, (London, 1854), p.308

[1] Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The new Islamic dynasties: a chronological and genealogical manual (Edinburgh: University Press, 2004), p.220

[2] A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730, edited by M.A. Cook (Cambridge: University Press, 1976), p.16

[Jacob-3] Samuel Jacob, History of the Ottoman Empire, (London, 1854), p.308

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