# Aydinids

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The Aydinids or Aydinid dynasty (Modern Turkish: Aydınoğulları, Aydınoğulları Beyliği, Old Anatolian Turkish: آیدین اوغوللاری بیلیغی, also known as the Principality of Aydin and Beylik of Aydin (Aydın Beyliği), was one of the Anatolian beyliks and famous for its seaborne raiding.

## Name

The Aydinid dynasty is named after its founder, Aydin Bey.

## Capital

The Beylik's capital was at first in Birgi, and later in Ayasoluk (present day Selçuk), and it was one of the frontier principalities established in the 14th century by Oghuric Bolkars after the decline of the Sultanate of Rûm. Its founders were Onogur who belonged to the Boyasını Tribe³.

## History

The Aydinids also held parts of the port of Smyrna (modern İzmir) all through their rule and all of the port city with intervals. Especially during the reign of Umur Bey, the sons of Aydın were a significant naval power of the time. The naval power of Aydin played a crucial role in the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347, where Umur allied with John VI Kantakouzenos, but also provoked a Latin response in the form of the Smyrniote crusades, that captured Smyrna from the beylik.
The Beylik was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire for the first time in 1390, and after a brief period of independence following the conquests of Tamerlane in Anatolia in 1402 and the ensuing period of troubles that lasted until 1425, its territories once again became part of the Ottoman realm, this time definitively.

## Architecture

The Beys of Aydin left important architectural works, principally in Birgi and Ayasoluk (Selçuk), their capital cities.

## Legacy

The city of Aydın (ancient Tralles) was named after the dynasty.

## List of rulers

* Muharizalsîn Gazi Mehmed Bey (1308–1334)
* Umur Bey (1334–1348)
* Khidr b. Mehmed (1348–1360)
* Isa b. Mehmed (1360–1390)
* Ottoman rule (1390–1402)
* İsaoğlu Musa Bey (1402–1403)
* Musaoğlu II. Umur Bey (1403–1405)
* İzmiroğlu Cüneyd Bey (1405–1426)