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Umur Beg
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Umur Ghazi, Ghazi Umur, or Umur the Lion (Modern Turkish: Aydınoğlu Umur Bey, c. 1309–1348), also known as Umur Pasha was the second Turkoman bey of Aydin, on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, from 1334 to 1348. He was famous for his naval expeditions. During his reign, he fought off many Crusades against him called out by the Pope.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Umur of Aydin
- Royalty.image
- Umur beyaydin.jpg
- Royalty.caption
- Statue of Umur of Aydin
- Royalty.image_size
- 250px
- Royalty.title
- Gazi
- Royalty.succession
- Bey of Aydinids
- Royalty.reign
- 1334-1348
- Royalty.predecessor
- Mehmed Bey
- Royalty.successor
- Hizir Bey
- Royalty.father
- Mehmed Bey
- Royalty.birth_date
- 1309
- Royalty.death_date
- 1348
- Royalty.death_place
- Smyrna
- Royalty.religion
- Sunni Islam
- Military person.embed
- yes
- Military person.battles
- Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 Smyrniote crusades
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Beylik of Aydın
- Place of birth
- Aydın
- Place of death
- İzmir
- Occupation
- sailor
- Religion
- Islam
- Image
- Umur Bey büstü.JPG
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- date of death
- 1348-01-01
- date of birth
- 1309-00-00
- name in native language
- Umur Bey Aydınoğlu
- Commons category
- Umur Bey
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Career
- Personality and appearance
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Umur Ghazi, Ghazi Umur, or Umur the Lion (Modern Turkish: Aydınoğlu Umur Bey, c. 1309–1348), also known as Umur Pasha was the second Turkoman bey of Aydin, on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, from 1334 to 1348. He was famous for his naval expeditions. During his reign, he fought off many Crusades against him called out by the Pope.
==Career== Umur Ghazi was a loyal ally and friend of Emperor John Cantacuzenus of the Byzantine Empire and provided him with material aid during his military campaigns, especially during the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347. He apparently sent 380 ships and 28,000 men to aid him in the conflict and besieged the city of Demotika in Thrace, Greece. The emperor John reportedly mourned his death. At the height of its power, the Beylik of Aydin possessed 350 ships and 15,000 men.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Umur Beg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.