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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 676 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KARAMANIA , formerly an See also:

independent inland See also:province in the See also:south of See also:Asia See also:Minor, named after See also:Karaman, the son of an Armenian convert to See also:Islam, who married a daughter of See also:Ala ed-Din Kaikobad, the Seljuk See also:sultan of See also:Rum, and was granted Laranda in See also:fief, and made See also:governor of Selefke, 1223–1245• The name Karaman is, however, See also:Turkoman and that of a powerful tribe, settled apparently near Laranda. The Armenian convert must have been adopted into this. On the collapse of the Seljuk See also:empire, Karaman's See also:grandson, Mahmud, 1299–1319, founded a See also:state, which included See also:Pamphylia, See also:Lycaonia and large parts of See also:Cilicia, See also:Cappadocia and See also:Phrygia. Its See also:capital, Laranda, superseded See also:Konia. This state was frequently at See also:war with the See also:kings of Lesser See also:Armenia, the See also:Lusignan princes of See also:Cyprus and the knights of See also:Rhodes. It was also engaged in a See also:long struggle for supremacy with the Osmanli See also:Turks, which only ended in 1472, when it was definitely annexed by Mahommed II. The Osmanlis divided Karamania into Kharij See also:north, and Ichili south, of the See also:Taurus, and restored Konia to its See also:metropolitan position. The name Karamania is now often given by geographers to Ichili only; but so far as it has had any exact significance in moderntimes, it has stood for the whole province of Konia. Before the See also:present provincial See also:division was made (1864), Karamania was the eyalet of which Konia was the capital, and it did not extend to the See also:sea, the whole littoral from See also:Adalia eastward being under the See also:pasha of See also:Adana. Nevertheless, in Levantine popular usage at the present See also:day, "Karamania " signifies the See also:coast from Adalia to See also:Messina. (D. G.

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