Ramadanid Emirate

The Ramadanid Emirate was the Turkish emirate of Cilicia, ruling from Adana from 1352 to 1608 between Mamluks and Ottomans. Yuregir Turks, tough proud mountain lords out of Transoxiana, driven west by the Mongol storm, settled from Antioch to Gaza with the Sultan's leave as a small community southeast of Adana on old Cilician ground of Bektashi-tinged custom, half shaman drums and half Islam, and named their new land Yuregir. In 1352 Ramazan Beg settled Camili south of Çaldağı with Cairo's assent; in 1359 Mamluks took Adana and Tarsus, ending Armenians in 1375, authorizing the Türkmen Emirate to rule. Not Seljuk heirs at all, though lazy histories file them among beyliks, they held Cilicia first for Cairo, then for a century alone, then for Istanbul from 1517. Anatolia's free old emirate outside the Seljuk succession, it outlasted greater neighbors by bending, and bent into the Ottoman order at last.