House of Candar Candaroğulları | |||||||||
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| 1291–1461 | |||||||||
 Candaroğulları Beyliği Principality | |||||||||
| Capital | |||||||||
| Common languages | Old Anatolian Turkish | ||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||
| Government | Beylik | ||||||||
| Bey | |||||||||
• 1291 | Şemseddin Yaman Candar Bey | ||||||||
• 1461 | Kızıl Ahmed Bey | ||||||||
| Historical era | Late Medieval | ||||||||
• Established | 1291 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1461 | ||||||||
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The Candar dynasty (Turkish: Candaroğulları), also known as the Isfendiyar dynasty (İsfendiyaroğulları), was an Oghuz Turkic[1] princely Anatolian dynasty that reigned in the territories corresponding to the provinces of Eflani, Kastamonu, Sinop, Zonguldak, Bartın, Karabük, Samsun, Bolu, Ankara and Çankırı in present-day Turkey from the year 1291 to 1461. The region was known in Western literature as Paphlagonia, a name applied to the same geographical area during the Roman period.
The dynasty and principality, founded by Şemseddin Yaman Candar Bey,[2] were incorporated into the Ottoman Empire by Sultan Mehmed II in 1461.
- ^ Isfendiyar Oghlu, J. H. Mordtmann, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol. IV, ed. E.van Donzel, B. Lewis and C. Pellatt, (Brill, 1997), 108.
- ^ "CANDAROĞULLARI". TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish). Retrieved 5 August 2023.