Şemseddin Yaman Candar ( Old Anatolian Turkish : شمس الدين يمان جاندار) , was the eponymous founder and first bey of the Candar dynasty and principality in late 13th century Anatolia . He reigned as Bey of the Principality of Candar from 1291 until his death in 1309.
21-598: Descended from the Kayı branch of Oghuz Turks , Şemseddin Yaman Candar was the son of Alp Arslan Yaman Candar Mehmed Bey. During his tenure as a senior commander in the imperial army of Seljuk sultan Mesud II , he was awarded the province of Eflani by the sultan for his distinction in service. In 1291, the Ilkhanid emperor Arghun , who had been suzerain of the Seljuks died. As
42-561: A B.A. diploma and was sent to work in the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Kazakh SSR Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in 1967. His PhD thesis "Ancient Turkic genealogical legends as a source on early history of Turkic people " included a number of new discoveries about the socio-political history of the Turks, suggested the etymology of the name of
63-544: A result, in a bid to wrest for the Seljuk throne, Şehzade Kılıç Arslan , son of the late Sultan Kaykaus II who had previously been living in the Crimea made his way to Anatolia , where his principal allies were the Çobanoğulları . Meanwhile, Sultan Mesud II , elder brother of Kılıç Arslan, attempted to capture him but was defeated by Kılıç Arslan and his Çobanoğulları ally Yavlak, leading to Mesud being taken prisoner. In
84-578: A sub-branch of the Bozok tribal federation. In his Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk , the 11th century Kara-Khanid scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari cited Kayı as of one of 22 Oghuz tribes, saying that Oghuz were also called Turkomans . The name Kayı means " the one who has might and power by relationship " and the Turkmen proverb says that " people shall be headed by Kayı and Bayat tribes" ( Turkmen : Il başy - gaýy-baýat ). In his history work Shajara-i Tarākima ,
105-525: Is the Kay tribe, whom Chinese knew as Xí 奚 (< MC * γiei ). After examining Chinese sources & consulting the works of other scholars ( Pelliot , Minorsky ), Zuev proposes that the Kay had belonged to the proto-Mongolic Xianbei tribal union Yuwen Xiongnu and that Kay had been ethnic and linguistic relatives of the Mongolic-speaking Khitans , prior to being known as an Oghuz-Turkmen tribe by
126-696: The Ashina tribe, traced the historical past of the Turkic tribes in the Chinese genealogical legends, and suggested a hypothesis about an ethnic triumvirate of Ashina-Ashide- Basmyl . The main finding of his thesis was the etymology of the name of the Kagan tribe Ashina. Zuev was a collaborator in important editions of the USSR history: "Historical Atlas of the USSR peoples", "Historical atlas of
147-604: The Balkan velayat and consists of the following clans: adnakel, ak kel, alatelpek, bagly, barak, burkaz, ganjyk, gapan, garabalkan, garawul, garagol, garagul, garadaşly, garakel, garga, garyşmaz and others. The Kayı are also a subtribe of the Bayat Turkmens of the Lebap velayat . The name and logo of the İyi Party ( İyi means Good in Turkish ) of Meral Akşener is inspired by
168-560: The Ilkhanate Rashid-al-Din Hamadani also says that the Kayı tribe comes from the oldest of Oghuz Khan's 24 grandchildren who were the patriarchs of the ancient Oghuz tribes, and the name Kayı means "powerful". Soviet Sinologist and Turkologist Yury Zuev based on the analysis of tribal names and tamgas from Tang Huiyao , identifies a number of ancient Central Asian Turkic tribes as Oghuz-Turkmen tribes, one of them
189-585: The 9th century. Likewise, Hungarian scholar Gyula Németh (1969) links Kayı(ğ) to the (para-)Mongolic Qay / Xí , whom Tibetans knew as Dad-pyi and Göktürks knew as Tatabï ; however, Németh's thesis is rejected by Mehmet Fuat Köprülü among others. Later on, Németh (1991) proposes that Mg. Qay is derived from Tk. root qað- "snowstorm, blizzard"; nevertheless, Golden points out that Qay has several Mongolic etymologies: ɣai "misfortune", χai "interjection of grief", χai "to seek", χai "to hew". Even so, Köprülü rejects scholarly attempts to link
210-682: The Kayı tribe. In the 10th century, the Central Asian Oghuz Yabgu State was headed by supreme leaders (or Yabghu ) who belonged to the Kayı tribe. According to Soviet archaeologist and ethnographer Sergey Tolstov , part of the Kayi tribe moved in the Middle Ages from Central Asia to modern day Ukraine , they are known in the Rus' chronicle as kovuy and kaepichi as one of the tribes that formed
231-619: The Kazakh SSR", and five-volume edition "History of the Kazakh SSR from most ancient times to the present". The mass of Zuev's work included analysis of the Kazakhstan and Central Asian political history from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD, history of ancient and medieval periods, ethnic composition and movement of tribes in the Western Turkic Kaganate , and pre- Mongolian period (10th–12th centuries) history. Zuev wrote about
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#1732854586338252-456: The Khan of Khiva and historian, Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur , mentions Kayı among the 24 ancient Turkmen ( Oghuz Turkic ) tribes, direct descendants of Oghuz Khagan . Oghuz Khagan is a semi-legendary figure thought to be the ancient progenitor of Oghuz Turks. Kayı translates as "strong". In his extensive history work “ Jami' al-tawarikh ” (Collection of Chronicles), the statesman and historian of
273-469: The Ottomans' Kayı descent came from genealogies written during the fifteenth century, several centuries after the life of Osman. More significantly, the earliest genealogies written by the Ottomans did not include any reference to Kayı descent at all, indicating that it may have been fabricated at a later date. The famous Oghuz- Turkic folk narrator, soothsayer and bard Gorkut-ata (Dede Korkut) belonged to
294-651: The Turkic tribal confederation called the Black Klobuks , who were allies of the Rurik dynasty of the Rus' Khaganate ; Golden however considers the Kaepichi to be descendants of the Mongolic or para-Mongolic Qay instead. Soviet and Russian linguist and turkologist A. V. Superanskaya associates the Kayı tribe with the origin of the name of the city of Kyiv ; however, Canadian Ukrainian linguist Jaroslav Rudnyckyj connects
315-651: The ensuing battle, Şemseddin Yaman Candar was successful in defeating the Çobanoğulları army and liberating Mesud II . As a result of his victory and liberation of Sultan Mesud , Yaman Candar was awarded the former Çobanoğulları possession of Eflani in the Black Sea region of the Anatolian peninsula as his fiefdom , from which the Candaroğulları dynasty was established with subsequent generations gradually expanding into neighboring provinces and reigning until 1461,
336-557: The ethno-social organization of Central Asia nomadic peoples in antiquity and Middle Ages: pied horde, centuria ( comparative – typological study)" (1998), "Kypchak Urbe-khan in epos and history" (2001), "Manichaeism and Talas (interpretation of Ancient Turkic inscriptions )" (2002). Zuev's 70th birthday in 2002 coincided with the publication of his lifetime work, a monograph "Early Turks: Sketches of history and ideology", followed by "A Strongest Tribe" (2004) and "Seyanto Kaganate and Kimeks (Central Asian Turkic ethnogeography in
357-639: The formerly Mongolic Qay/Xi to the Oghuz Turkic tribe Qayı(ğ); he points out that Kashgari 's Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk distinguished the Qay tribe from the Qayığ branch/sub-tribe of the Oghuz-Turkmen tribe. According to Ottoman tradition, Osman I , the founder of Ottoman Empire , was a descendant of the Kayı tribe. This claim has, however, been called into serious question by many modern historians. The only evidence for
378-570: The genesis, ethnic composition and political history of the Türgesh Kaganate. After the fall of the USSR, Zuev was able to publish a number of works on ancient and medieval history of nomadic peoples of the Central Asia and Kazakhstan. These include "Sarmato-Alans of Aral (Yancai\Abzoya)" (1995), "Ancient Turkic social terminology in the Chinese texts of the 8th century" (1998), "Creation of Türgesh Kaganate: history and tradition" (1996), "Forms of
399-520: The name Kyiv to the Proto-Slavic root *kyjь , which should be interpreted as meaning 'stick, pole' as in its modern Ukrainian equivalent Кий ; therefore, the toponym should in that case be interpreted as 'palisaded settlement'. In Anatolia , twenty seven villages bear the name of Kayı . In Turkmenistan , the Kayı tribe is one of the main divisions of the Gökleň Turkmens living in
420-699: The seal of the Kayı tribe. Yury Zuev Yuri Alexeyevich Zuev or Zuyev ( Russian : Юрий Алексеевич Зуев ; 8 December 1932 – 5 December 2006) was a Russian -born Kazakh sinologist and turkologist . Zuev was born in the Siberian city of Tümen in a white-collar family. Zuev studied at the Leningrad State University and majored in the historical studies of the Eastern Asian countries, successfully learning Classical Chinese , Middle Chinese , and modern Chinese . In 1955, Zuev received
441-517: The year which saw the principality's incorporation into the Ottoman Empire by Mehmed II . While there is no record of Yaman Candar's later life, it is believed that he died in the early 14th century . He was succeeded as bey by his son Süleyman I. Kay%C4%B1 (tribe) The Kayı or Kayi tribe ( Karakhanid : قَيِغْ romanized: qayïγ or qayig ; Turkish : Kayı boyu , Turkmen : Gaýy taýpasy ) were an Oghuz Turkic people and
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