Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Eshrefids
drawn on the map 1305–1325
The Eshrefids (Eşrefoğulları) were a small beylik centred on Beyşehir in the lakes district, conventionally 1285–1326, founded by Süleyman ibn Eşref Bey. The dynasty is remembered above all for the Eşrefoğlu Mosque at Beyşehir (completed 1299), one of the finest surviving examples of the Anatolian "forest" (wooden hypostyle) mosque with its many wooden columns.
- Shown on the map
- 1305–1325
- Peak area
- 13k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
The Eshrefids (Eşrefoğulları) were a small beylik centred on Beyşehir in the lakes district, conventionally 1285–1326, founded by Süleyman ibn Eşref Bey. The dynasty is remembered above all for the Eşrefoğlu Mosque at Beyşehir (completed 1299), one of the finest surviving examples of the Anatolian "forest" (wooden hypostyle) mosque with its many wooden columns. The beylik was destroyed by the Ilkhanid governor Timurtash around 1326, and its territory later passed to the Hamidids and Karamanids.
Common questions
- What were the Eshrefids?
- The Eshrefids (Eşrefoğulları) were a small beylik centred on Beyşehir in the lakes district, conventionally 1285–1326, founded by Süleyman ibn Eşref Bey. The dynasty is remembered above all for the Eşrefoğlu Mosque at Beyşehir (completed 1299), one of the finest surviving examples of the Anatolian "forest" (wooden hypostyle) mosque with its many wooden columns.
- When are the Eshrefids shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Eshrefids 1305–1325. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large were the Eshrefids?
- At their greatest extent drawn on this map, the Eshrefids covered about 13,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives them across the years they are drawn, not necessarily their greatest extent in history.
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 — Eshrefids en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eshrefids
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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