State · 1337 – 1522

Beylik of Dulkadir

A state of 1337 – 1522 — 185 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It was replaced by Dulkadir eyalet. The atlas records 6 things within it — people 6. Its line of rulers holds 17 people, 11 with dated terms.

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

Stood: 185 years; 1337 – 1522
Rulers: 17; the Bey of Dulkadir
Most ground: 30,800 km²; in 1402
Within it: 6; recorded rows

Map: Beylik of Dulkadir in 1402, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Beylik of Dulkadir in 1402, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 30,800 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.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

After it

Dulkadir eyalet · replaced by

Rulers

The line of Bey of Dulkadir.

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

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Zeyneddin Karaca Bey	1337 – 1353	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Garseddin Halil Bey	1353 – 1386	33 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Şaban Süli Bey	1386 – 1398	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Sadaka Bey	1398 – 1399	1 year	ending not on record	child
Mehmed of Dulkadir	1399 – 1442	43 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Suliman Dhul-Kadr	1442 – 1454	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Melik Arslan Bey	1454 – 1465	11 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	child
Shah Budak	1465 – 1467	2 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	sibling
Shah Suwar	1467 – 1472	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Shah Budak	1472 – 1480	8 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone	sibling
Ala al-Dawla Bozkurt	1480 – 1515	35 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	sibling
Ali of Dulkadir	1515 – 1522	7 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone

17 rulers, 11 with terms dated as terms, covering 1337 – 1522. Median reign 11.5 years. 2 of 11 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.

30,300 km² in 1347, 30,400 km² in 1507; at its largest 30,400 km² in 1407. Cliopatria, CC BY 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.

1400 – 14995 rows

Ayşe Hatun I · ruler · 1453 – 1505
Shah Suwar · ruler · 1432 – 1472
Ala al-Dawla Bozkurt · ruler · 1479 – 1515
Mehmed of Dulkadir · ruler · 1400 – 1442
Shah Budak · ruler · 1401

1500 – 15991 row

Ali of Dulkadir · ruler · 1515 – 1522

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 stood185 years
stood longer than 60% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held30,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 28% 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 median12 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 41% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record17
has more rulers on record than 90% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1318 – 1541, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1402, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1264808 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.