In the 18th and 19th centuries, Karamania (or Caramania) was an exonym used by Europeans for the southern (Mediterranean) coast of Anatolia, then part of the Ottoman Empire (current Turkey).
In 1811–12, Francis Beaufort, then the captain of HMS Fredericksteen in the British Navy, was tasked with mapping the Mediterranean coast of Anatolia.
(Although Karamanids were Muslim, Karamanlides were a Turkish-speaking Christian minority of the region who emigrated to Greece during the Greek-Turkish population exchange in the 1920s).
This name referred to a wide region from Yediburun (Mount Cragus) to Ayas (Aegeae) where Beaufort was wounded during a clash.
[2] This region is from 36°24′N 29°07′E / 36.400°N 29.117°E / 36.400; 29.117 in the west to 36°47′N 35°50′E / 36.783°N 35.833°E / 36.783; 35.833 in the east, almost lying at the same latitude but spanning a longitude difference of more than 6 degrees which corresponds to about 600 kilometres (370 mi) bird's flight.