Germiyan
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The Anatolian Turkish Beylik of Germiyan with its capital in Kütahya was one of the prominent frontier principalities established by Oghuz Turkish clans after the decline of Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate.
They were later taken over by the neighboring Osmanoglu dynasty, who were to found the Ottoman Empire later.
The actual Turkish province (sanjak, later vilayet) of Kütahya was called the sub-province (sanjak, later vilayet) of Karesi till the early years of the Republic of Turkey, after which it was re-named after its central town. The founding dynasty of the beylik produced descendants who illustrated themselves under the Ottoman Empire and in present-day Turkey.
