Candar dynasty

House of Candar
Candaroğulları
1291–1461
Candaroğulları Beyliği Principality
Candaroğulları Beyliği Principality
Capital
Common languagesOld Anatolian Turkish
Religion
Sunni Islam
GovernmentBeylik
Bey 
• 1291
Şemseddin Yaman Candar Bey
• 1461
Kızıl Ahmed Bey
Historical eraLate Medieval
• Established
1291
• Disestablished
1461
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Sultanate of Rum
Ottoman Empire

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.

  1. ^ Isfendiyar Oghlu, J. H. Mordtmann, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Vol. IV, ed. E.van Donzel, B. Lewis and C. Pellatt, (Brill, 1997), 108.
  2. ^ "CANDAROĞULLARI". TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish). Retrieved 5 August 2023.