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The exercise of coastal control in Rūm Seljuk territory in the XIII century, on both MediterraneanWhite and Black Sea coastlines is almost entirely unaddressed in the modern literature, although the title of the responsible official, when not directly administered by the Sultān, is recorded, emir-i sevahil, Emir of the Coastlines, and after 1250, malik al-sawahil, Ruler of the Coastlines. The mountainous, indented S.W. coastline of the Sultanate by 1226 extended for more than 600 km, Dalaman to near Silifke, yet rapid communications were essential to the exercise of effective state control. How did timely information reach the sultān in his peregrinations and campaigns – news of the passage of a Crusader or pirate fleet, an uprising, or the arrival of envoys? This brief article outlines the communication systems that would have been employed, relates them to “The Second Sulaymān”, the laqub awarded to Rūm Seljuk Sultans from 1205 to 1247, and suggests the manār tower immediately to the west of Şarâb-salâr han, 15 km west of Alanya was a station in this network, signals from this structure being clearly visible from the castle of ‘Ala’iyya-Alanya lying to its East.

On the Exercise of Coastal Control through Observation and Long Distance Communication Systems in Seljuk Territory in the XIIIth Century