Candar dynasty

The Candar dynasty, the Isfendiyar beylik, was the Oghuz Turkic principality of Paphlagonia on the Black Sea coast, reigning from 1291 to 1461 over Eflani, Kastamonu, Sinop, Zonguldak, Bartin, Karabuk and Samsun. Of the Kayi branch, its founder Yaman Candar, a senior Seljuk commander, won Eflani from Mesud for pulling him out of Mongol captivity, taking over from the Cobanids; his son Suleyman conquered neighboring Kastamonu and annexed Safranbolu and Sinop from Mu'in al-Din's heirs. Suleyman bowed to the Persian Ilkhanate till Abu Sa'id died, and his sons Ibrahim and Ali tore the realm till Ibrahim won in 1339. Kotorum Bayezid fought Kadi Burhan al-Din of Sivas, lost Kastamonu to Murad-backed Suleyman in 1383, and Suleyman the Second reunited the halves, rode with Murad in Europe, and died when Bayezid I stormed Kastamonu in 1391; Isfendiyar bent to Bayezid, then to Timur after 1402. Mehmed the Conqueror ended the game in 1461, folding Paphlagonia into the Ottoman Empire a few years after Constantinople itself.