Sarukhan Bey

{{Short description|Turkish Bey of Magnesia}} {{redirect|Saruhan|the region in Turkey formerly an Ottoman sanjak|Manisa Province}} [[File:Silver gigliato of Sarukhan Beg bin Alpagi 1313 1348 ruler of Lydia western Turkey.jpg|thumb|250px|Silver gigliato of Sarukhan Beg bin Alpagi, 1313-1348, ruler of Lydia, western Turkey. This is an imitation of a coin of Robert I of Anjou, king of Naples (1309-1343).]] '''Sarukhan''' (1300/01–1345/46) was a Turkish Bey of Magnesia (present-day Manisa, Turkey).<ref>Clifford Edmund Bosworth, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mKpz_2CkoWEC&pg=PA220 ''The new Islamic dynasties: a chronological and genealogical manual''] (Edinburgh: University Press, 2004), p.220</ref>

Sarukhan was a Turkish Bey who is remembered for his conquests in the western 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.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=nUs7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA16 ''A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730''], edited by M.A. Cook (Cambridge: University Press, 1976), p.16</ref>

At one point in 1336, Sarukhan formed an alliance with the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos, and supported him militarily in two sieges against the Genoese, in Mytilene and Phocaea.<ref name="Jacob">Samuel Jacob, [https://books.google.com/books?id=iBwpAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA308 ''History of the Ottoman Empire''], (London, 1854), p.308</ref> In 1341 however he attacked Constantinople with a fleet, but was repulsed around the Gallipoli peninsula by a Byzantine fleet in 1341.<ref name="Jacob"/>

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Category:Sarukhanids Category:14th-century monarchs in the Middle East Category:1340s deaths Category:1300s births