Tuzhisar Sultan Khan, Bunyan district of Kayseri Tuzhis is It is located in the village and was built on the old Sivas road. This inn is most probably Seljuk Sultan Alaeddin Keykubat It was built by and especially The Mamluk commander Baybars in 1277 It is known that he used this inn. The inn is included in both Seljuk and Mamluk period sources and was an important point on the trade route. Also, in the 14th century, the Florentine merchant Francesco Pegolotti It was also recorded by and referred to as "Sultan Han". The construction date is estimated between 1230-1234, comparing it with Sultan Han Aksaray. 1

Kurt Erdman visited this inn. 2

Sultanhani Caravanserai It is on the Kayseri-Sivas highway and 47 km away from Kayseri. It is in the village of the same name. It was built between 1232-1236 during the reign of Seljuk Sultan I. Alaeddin Keykubat. 3

Tuzhisar Sultan InnLocated on the Kayseri-Sivas road, it is one of the important structures of Anatolian Seljuk architecture, built in 1230-1234 during the reign of Alaeddin Keykubat I. It attracts attention with its seven-bay covered section and its courtyard with a kiosk and masjid in the middle. 4

  1. turkishhan.org – Sultan Han Kayseri ↩︎
  2. Kurt, Erdmann: The anatolische Karavansaray des 13. Jahrhunderts, p. 90-97, Inn No. 26 ↩︎
  3. kayseri.gov.tr ​​– Kayseri Governorship – Sultanhani Caravanserai ↩︎
  4. Esra Yilmaz, Tabriz-Antalya Silk Road Route in the 12th and 13th Centuries (Master's thesis, TC Eskişehir Osmangazi University Social Sciences Institute, 2016), Page 44 – PDF ↩︎
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