Abstract:

The Turkmens of the Bozok section of Oguzs who were in the Aleppo and Antep started to immigrate to the inner parts of Anatolia during the declining of the Ilkhans in Anatolia in the ends of the XIIth century. These groups more of them were Bayat, Avşar and Begdilli Turkmens having united in their own gap, achieved to establish their principalities at these lands while advancing Malatya, Maraş and Sivas with the help of Mamluk Sultan Melik Nasır. Those Turkmens who were the members of the Bozok section of Oguzs would made military campaign forward to the inners of Anatolia and Armenian regions either willingly or together as a border principality of the Mamluks. The Dulkadhir principality that was the buffer zone between Mamluks and Eretnas sometimes attacked to the borders of the Eretnas as looting activities. Emir Eretna had often applied to Mamluk Sultanate to block these attacks because the Dulkadirs were under the protection of Mamluk. Even though Karacabey stopped those attacks for a while after the warning of the Caliphate, some events which happened in the future caused many contentions and wars between these two principalities.

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