Beaufort, Francis: Karamania, or a brief description of the south coast of Asia-Minor and of the remains of antiquity: with plans, views, &c. ; collected during a survey of that coast, under the orders of the lords commissioners of the admiralty, in the years 1811 & 1812 (London, 1817)

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gia; and was so called from Karaman,
the chieftain bv whom it was founded.
But, after various struggles with the
growing power of the Turks during the
course of two centuries, it was finally
subverted by Bajazet the Second; and
the inland town of Karaman affords, at
this da}r, the only remaining vestige of
the name.

The names and boundaries of the an-
tient provinces above-mentioned are also
entirely obliterated; and the limits, even
of the present states, cannot be ascer-
tained with any precision. Sheltered
from all effectual control of the Porte
by the great barrier of Mount Taurus, the
half-independent and turbulent Pashas,
amongst whom they are parcelled, are
engaged in constant petty hostilities with
each other, so that their respective frontiers
change with the issue of every skirmish.