Bafra

Bafra was a Turkmen beylik on the Kızılırmak delta on Anatolia’s Black Sea coast. Around 1330 it passed from the Pervane rulers to the Candarid dynasty.

A tomb inscription of 1381 records Emirza as an independent ruler of the market town. In 1393 Bafra’s bey submitted to the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I. The Candarid İsfendiyar briefly seized the town during the Ottoman civil war after 1402, but his son Hızır returned it to the Ottomans in 1419 or 1420, ending the beylik.