Medieval Beyşehir
Seljuk and beylik history and monuments.
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Medieval BeyşehirBeyşehir under the Anatolian SeljuksThe Seljuk period brought a court landscape to the lake and laid foundations for the later medieval town.Medieval BeyşehirKubadabad PalaceKubadabad is the excavated thirteenth-century Seljuk palace complex on the southwest shore of Lake Beyşehir.Medieval BeyşehirTiles of KubadabadThe excavated tiles of Kubadabad provide an unusually rich visual record of Anatolian Seljuk court art.Medieval BeyşehirKız Kalesi islandKız Kalesi is an island with medieval ruins opposite the Kubadabad palace landscape.Medieval BeyşehirEşrefoğullarıThe Eşrefoğulları were a late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century Anatolian beylik centred on Beyşehir.Medieval BeyşehirEşrefoğlu Süleyman BeySeyfeddin Süleyman Bey founded the Eşrefoğulları beylik and made Beyşehir its centre.Medieval BeyşehirEşrefoğlu MosqueEşrefoğlu Mosque is Beyşehir’s late thirteenth-century timber-columned congregational mosque and a UNESCO World Heritage component.Medieval BeyşehirEşrefoğlu complex and İçerişehirThe mosque, market, bath, religious buildings and fortifications formed a medieval urban core in Beyşehir’s İçerişehir.Medieval BeyşehirEşrefoğlu Mosque endowmentThe vakfiye of Eşrefoğlu Süleyman Bey records resources assigned to the mosque and offers a view of medieval institutions.Medieval BeyşehirBeyşehir BedestenThe bedesten is the covered market building of Beyşehir’s historic İçerişehir core.Medieval Beyşehirİsmail Ağa Medreseİsmail Ağa Medrese is a later medieval educational building beside Beyşehir’s Eşrefoğlu Mosque.Medieval BeyşehirBeyşehir city walls and Kale KapısıSurviving fragments of Beyşehir’s medieval defences include the gate known as Kale Kapısı.Medieval BeyşehirBayındır MosqueBayındır Mosque is a timber-columned rural mosque in the Beyşehir district dated by its inscription to 1365.Medieval BeyşehirBeyşehir Seljuk carpet fragmentsCarpet fragments recorded from Eşrefoğlu Mosque are important witnesses to medieval Anatolian weaving.Medieval BeyşehirAlâeddin Keykubad IAlâeddin Keykubad I was the Anatolian Seljuk sultan who commissioned the Kubadabad palace beside Lake Beyşehir.Medieval BeyşehirSâdeddin KöpekSâdeddin Köpek was a Seljuk court figure associated with the construction of Kubadabad.Medieval BeyşehirEmir İsmail Ağaİsmail Ağa was a later medieval emir whose name survives in Beyşehir’s medrese and funerary record.Medieval BeyşehirSeyyid HârunSeyyid Hârun is a religious figure associated with the medieval foundation traditions of nearby Seydişehir.Medieval BeyşehirHamidoğulları and BeyşehirThe Hamidoğulları held Beyşehir after the fall of the Eşrefoğulları, placing the lake town in a wider political contest across southwestern Anatolia.Medieval BeyşehirBeyşehir on the Karamanid–Ottoman frontierFrom the late fourteenth to the mid fifteenth century, Beyşehir repeatedly changed hands in the struggle between the Karamanoğulları and the Ottomans.Medieval BeyşehirTimurtaş and the end of the EşrefoğullarıTimurtaş, also written Demirtaş, was an Ilkhanid governor whose 1326 campaign ended the Eşrefoğlu beylik in Beyşehir.HistoryEducation in BeyşehirBeyşehir’s schools grew from endowed medieval institutions through Ottoman reform to village classrooms and higher education.Medieval BeyşehirEşrefoğlu BathhouseThe Eşrefoğlu Bathhouse is a surviving part of the late thirteenth-century endowment that supported Beyşehir’s Eşrefoğlu Mosque.Medieval BeyşehirDemirli MescitDemirli Mescit is a small fourteenth-century Beyşehir building whose inscription and later records connect prayer with teaching.