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KARAMANIA , formerly an independent inland province in the south
Asia
Minor , named after Karaman, the son of an Armenian convert to Islam
governor of Selefke, 12231245 The name Karaman is, however, Turkoman and that of a powerful tribe, settled apparently near Laranda. The Armenian convert must have been adopted into this. On the collapse of the Seljuk empire, Karaman's grandson, Mahmud, 12991319, founded a state, which included Pamphylia
capital , Laranda, superseded Konia
south
Konia
metropolitan position. The name Karamania is now often given by geographers to Ichili only; but so far as it has had any exact significance in moderntimes, it has stood for the whole province of Konia. Before the present provincial division was made (1864), Karamania was the eyalet of which Konia was the capital , and it did not extend to the sea, the whole littoral from Adalia eastward being under the pasha of Adana. Nevertheless, in Levantine popular usage at the present day, "Karamania " signifies the coast
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