Beylik of Teke

The Beylik of Teke, the Tekeoğulları Beyliği, was one of the frontier principalities raised by Oghuz Turkish clans after the decline of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, and its capital was Antalya on the southern coast of what is now Turkey. It began with a split between two brothers of the neighbouring Hamidid beylik, the elder, Yunus Bey, taking the Teke branch that gave the state its name, while its people spoke Anatolian Turkish. The beylik stood on the trade routes of the Lycian coast and inland to the Hamid plain. Under the last ruler Othman the Ottomans annexed it in 1391, but the invasion of Anatolia by Timur in 1402 shattered Ottoman power in Asia Minor and Othman was restored to his rule; when Timur withdrew, the Ottomans came back and annexed the beylik permanently in 1423. The Teke name outlived the state, surviving in the sanjak of Antalya and the Teke peninsula west of the city.