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7h149p32377	Romain Thurin	Nomadic Warriors on the Edge of the World Empire: The Early Karamanids (1225-1335)	2022		.txt	text/plain	233	6	33	This dissertation studies the formation, expansion, and growth of the early Karamanid Beylik (c.a. 1256-1340), from a weak warband of nomads into one of the most politically, economically, and culturally significant entities to emerge from the ashes of the Seljuks, analyzing the processes through which the Mongol invasions forced the ancestors of the Karamanids to abandon their homeland for the greener pastures of Anatolia. In Anatolia, the sixty years that followed the first Mongol invasion (1242/1243) saw the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, once the unchallenged dominant political power in the region, collapse into a myriad of smaller emirates, the so-called Anatolian beyliks.	cache/7h149p32377.txt	txt/7h149p32377.txt