Born in 1352 in Ankara as Numan bin Ahmed bin Mahmud. Received education in religious and natural sciences in Ankara and Bursa. Left his studies to join Şeyh Hamid-i Veli's disciples
Hacı Bayram Veli was born in 1340 in Ankara's Solfasol district. He established the first Sufi cult in Anatolia in Ankara in 1415. Ankara was under Ottoman rule from 1363 under Sultan Murad I