State · 1250 – 1487

Karamanids

A state of 1250 – 1487 — 237 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Sultanate of Rum. It was replaced by Karaman eyalet. The atlas records 6 things within it — people 6. Its line of rulers holds 22 people, 5 with dated terms.

Wikidata's English label: Beylik of Karaman.

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

Stood: 237 years; 1250 – 1487
Rulers: 22; the Bey of Karaman
Most ground: 100,400 km²; in 1429
Within it: 6; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Karamanids in 1429, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Karamanids in 1429, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 100,400 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.

Karamanids in 1305, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Karamanids in 1429, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

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.

Before it

Sultanate of Rum · replaces · 1077 – 1307

After it

Karaman eyalet · replaced by

Rulers

The line of Bey of Karaman.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Nure Sofi	1250 – 1256	6 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Karaman Bey	1256 – 1261	5 years	died in battleWikidata's manner of death	child
Shams al-Din Mehmed	1261 – 1277	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Güneri of Karaman	1277 – 1300	23 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Badr al-Din Mahmud	1300 – 1311	11 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling

22 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 1250 – 1311. Median reign 11 years. 1 of 4 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.

27,700 km² in 1310, 100,400 km² in 1460; at its largest 100,400 km² in 1430. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

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

flag, undatedFlag of Konya Under Karamanid Rule · CC BY 4.0 · SnowyMercury455
flag, undatedFlag of Cunio · Public domain

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.

1200 – 12993 rows

Shams al-Din Mehmed · ruler · 1245 – 1277
Ibrahim I of Karaman · ruler · 1297 – 1350
Badr al-Din Mahmud · ruler · 1201 – 1312

1300 – 13993 rows

Nefise Hatun · ruler · 1363 – 1400
Mehmed II of Karaman · ruler · 1370 – 1423
Alaattin Ali of Karaman · ruler · 1342 – 1398

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 stood237 years
stood longer than 67% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held100,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 46% 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 median11 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 38% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record22
has more rulers on record than 92% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 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.

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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, 1226 – 1511, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1429, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1469100 (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.