State · 1300 – 1426

Aydinids

A state of 1300 – 1426 — 126 years in the Middle East and North Africa. The atlas records 2 things within it — people 2. Its line of rulers holds 7 people.

Wikidata's English label: Beylik of Aydın.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 126 years; 1300 – 1426
Rulers: 7; the Bey of Aydin
Most ground: 8,000 km²; in 1305
Within it: 2; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Aydinids in 1305, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Aydinids in 1305, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 8,000 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of Bey of Aydin.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Muharizalsîn Gazi Mehmed Bey	1308 – 1334	26 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Umur Beg	1334 – 1348	14 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Mehmedoğlu Hızır Bey	1348 – 1360	12 years	ending not on record
İsa Bey	1360 – 1390	30 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
İsaoğlu Musa Bey	1402 – 1403	1 year	ending not on record
Musaoğlu II. Umur Bey	1403 – 1405	2 years	ending not on record
Junayd of Aydın	1405 – 1426	21 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone

7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1308 – 1426. Median reign 14 years. 1 of 6 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

8,000 km² in 1310, 7,600 km² in 1426; at its largest 8,000 km² in 1310. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedBeylik of Aydin Flag · CC BY-SA 4.0

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1300 – 13992 rows

Umur Beg · ruler · 1309 – 1348
Junayd of Aydın · ruler · 1350 – 1425

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood126 years
stood longer than 51% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held8,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 13% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median14 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 46% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record7
has more rulers on record than 73% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 126

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1287 – 1439, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1305, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q717112 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.