Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Beylik of Hamid
drawn on the map 1305–1343
The Hamidids (Hamidoğulları) held the lakes region around Eğirdir and Isparta. Named for the frontier lord Hamid, the beylik was effectively founded by Felek al-Din Dündar Bey (c. 1301), who moved his seat to Eğirdir (renaming it Felekabad), declared himself sultan, minted coins, and captured Antalya—installing his brother Yunus there and thereby spawning the Teke branch.
- Shown on the map
- 1305–1343
- Peak area
- 57k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
The Hamidids (Hamidoğulları) held the lakes region around Eğirdir and Isparta. Named for the frontier lord Hamid, the beylik was effectively founded by Felek al-Din Dündar Bey (c. 1301), who moved his seat to Eğirdir (renaming it Felekabad), declared himself sultan, minted coins, and captured Antalya—installing his brother Yunus there and thereby spawning the Teke branch. Dündar submitted to the Ilkhanid governor Timurtash and died in 1324/1326. Its conventional dates are 1300–1391.
Decline and legacy
The Hamidids are chiefly remembered for selling territory to the Ottomans: under Murad I the Hamidid rulers were persuaded to sell the districts of Akşehir and Beyşehir. The last bey, Kamal al-Din Husayn (r. c. 1374–1391), saw the beylik annexed by Bayezid I in 1391, its lands becoming the Ottoman Sanjak of Hamid (roughly modern Isparta Province). (A commonly cited alternate terminal date of 1423 belongs properly to the Teke branch.)
Common questions
- What was the Beylik of Hamid?
- The Hamidids (Hamidoğulları) held the lakes region around Eğirdir and Isparta. Named for the frontier lord Hamid, the beylik was effectively founded by Felek al-Din Dündar Bey (c. 1301), who moved his seat to Eğirdir (renaming it Felekabad), declared himself sultan, minted coins, and captured Antalya—installing his brother Yunus there and thereby spawning the Teke branch.
- When is the Beylik of Hamid shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Beylik of Hamid 1305–1343. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the Beylik of Hamid?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Beylik of Hamid covered about 57,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
- How did the Beylik of Hamid end?
- The Hamidids are chiefly remembered for selling territory to the Ottomans: under Murad I the Hamidid rulers were persuaded to sell the districts of Akşehir and Beyşehir. The last bey, Kamal al-Din Husayn (r. c. 1374–1391), saw the beylik annexed by Bayezid I in 1391, its lands becoming the Ottoman Sanjak of Hamid (roughly modern Isparta Province).
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each beylik, khanate and principality as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, museum and academic sources (the Baku Presidential Library on the Shirvanshahs, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the Armenian Genocide) and the historiography of early Ottoman state formation (Wittek, Lindner, Kafadar, Lowry). The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Hamidids en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamidids
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