Career
He is famous for his naval expeditions. As a writer, poet and patron of the arts and sciences, Kalila wa-Dimna was first translated to Turkish during his reign. However, according to an unreliable but colorful source, two Venetian ambassadors remarked that he was immensely fat with a stomach "like a wine casket".
They had found him wearing silks, drinking almond milk and eating eggs with spices from a golden spoon.
The emperor John reportedly mourned his death. At the height of its power, the Emirate of Aydin possessed 350 ships and 15,000 mentor
Umur"s preying on Christian shipping led to the declaration of the Smyrniote crusades against him by Pope Clement VI in 1343. In 1348, his fleet was destroyed by an allied fleet from Venice, the Knights of Rhodes and Cyprus.
Umur was killed by a barrage of arrows, climbing the walls of Smyrna Castle during a recapture attempt.
Modern Izmir"s district Gaziemir (Ghazi Emir) is named after him.