Candaroğulları

Isfendiyarids / İsfendiyaroğulları
1292–1461
Flag according to the Catalan Atlas.
Candaroğulları Beyliği Principality
Capital		Eflani 1292–1309 Kastamonu 1309–1398 Sinop 1398–1461
Languages		Turkish
Religion		Sunni Islam
Government		Emirate
Bey
•	1292	Şemseddin Yaman
•	1461	Kızıl Ahmed Bey
Historical era		Late Medieval
•	Established	1292
•	Disestablished	1461
Preceded by Succeeded by Sultanate of Rum Ottoman Empire

Kastamonu 1309–1398
Sinop 1398–1461

The Isfendiyarids or Isfendiyarid dynasty (Modern Turkish: İsfendiyaroğulları, İsfendiyaroğulları Beyliği), also known as the Beylik of Sinop, the Principality of Isfendiyar and Beylik of Isfendiyar (İsfendiyar Beyliği ), its former name was Jandarids or Principality of Jandar (Candaroğulları, Candaroğulları Beyliği ), was an Anatolian Turkomanbeylik that ruled principally in the regions corresponding to present-day Kastamonu and Sinop provinces of Turkey, also covering parts of Zonguldak, Bartın, Karabük, Samsun, Bolu, Ankara and Çankırı provinces, between 1292–1461, in the Black Sea region of modern-day Turkey. The region is also known in Western literature as Paphlagonia, a name used for the same geographic area during the Roman period.

The founder of the beylik is Şemseddin Yaman Candar (also known as Temür Yaman Jandar); the beylik collapsed in 1461 when the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II annexed the region.

The Seljuq Sultan Masud II gave Kastamonu to Temür Yaman Jandar, a commander from the sultan's candar corps, in thanks for rescuing him from Mongol captivity. This province, however, was already under the control of the Chobanids. Following Temür's death, his son Süleyman I conquered the province and annexed Safranbolu and Sinop, formerly ruled by the descendants of Mu‘in al-Din Suleyman. Süleyman then appointed his son Ibrahim I as governor to Sinop and a second son Ali to Safranbolu. Süleyman reigned under the authority of the Ilkhanate, the Mongols of Persia, until the death of the ruler Abu Sa'id.