The Aq Qoyunlu or the White Sheep Turkomans (Azerbaijani: Ağqoyunlular, آغقویونلولار; Persian: آق قویونلو) was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Turkoman...
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سلطان یعقوب; Azerbaijani: Sultan Yaqub سلطان یعقوب) was the ruler of the Aq Qoyunlu from 1478 until his death on 24 December 1490. A son of Uzun Hasan, he...
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But he went to war with his enemies, the Aq Qoyunlular. Jahanshah Haqiqi died in the battle of Mus. Qara Qoyunlu was almost destroyed. This time Hasanali...
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Jahangir was the uncontested leader of the Aq Qoyunlu from 1444 to 1454, but afterwards fell into a dynastic struggle with his younger brother Uzun Hasan...
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The Bayandurids or the Tur-'Alids ruled over the Aq Qoyunlu confederation, that was founded by Tur Ali bin Pehlwan (1340-1360 C.E.), and was followed by...
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They were allied with the Qara Qoyunlu during the 14–15th centuries but shifted their allegiance to the Aq Qoyunlu upon the downfall of the former....
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federation of the Aq Qoyunlu from 1435 to 1438. Jalal ad-Din Ali ibn Qara Yoluq Osman was born into the Bayandur tribe of the Aq Qoyunlu confederation. He...
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Abu Sa'id Mirza (section War with the Aq Qoyunlu)
had previously been conquered by the Qara Qoyunlu. Seeing these lands now being absorbed by the Aq Qoyunlu, Abu Sa'id was aware that any chance of reclaiming...
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spelled Sultan-Murad) (persian: سلطان مراد) was the last sultan of the Aq Qoyunlu from 1497 to 1508. After losing his kingdom to the Safavid Shah Ismail...
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Uzun Hasan (category 15th-century Aq Qoyunlu rulers)
in Oghuz Turkic; 1423 – January 6, 1478) was a ruler of the Turkoman Aq Qoyunlu state and is generally considered to be its strongest ruler. Hasan ruled...
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which the ruling clans of the states of Qara Qoyunlu and Aq Qoyunlu emerged. After the fall of Aq Qoyunlu, the Turkmen tribes—partly under their own name...
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rump state called the Northern Yuan. By summer 1503, Aq Qoyunlu rule collapsed in Iran. Some Aq Qoyunlu rump states continued to survive until 1508, before...
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Oghuz Khagan (section Aq Qoyunlu)
The Aq Qoyunlu Sultans claimed descent from Bayindir Khan, through a grandson of Oghuz Khagan. Ottoman historian and ambassador to the Qara Qoyunlu, Şükrullah...
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Baysunghur (Persian: سلطان بایسنقر) was the ruler of the Aq Qoyunlu from 1490 to 1493. He was the son and successor of Ya'qub Beg (r. 1478–1490). He had...
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Yassar and his overlord, the Aq Qoyunlu, a Turkic tribal federation which controlled most of Iran. In 1494, the Aq Qoyunlu captured Ardabil, killing Ali...
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Hasankeyf (section Aq Qoyunlu period (1462–1501))
remaining Ayyubid dynasty, who owed allegiance to the Turkmen Aq Qoyunlu confederation. The Aq Qoyunlu dynasty was headed by Uzun Hassan from 1452 to 1478. Uzun...
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independent and rival states emerged in the region, namely Qara Qoyunlu and Aq Qoyunlu. The Shirvanshahs, on the other hand, became independent again in...
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Qara Yuluk Uthman Beg (category 14th-century Aq Qoyunlu rulers)
14th and early 15th-century leader of the Turkoman tribal federation of Aq Qoyunlu in what is now eastern Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Iraq. He was born...
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Mirza went to war against the Aq Qoyunlu, he was defeated at the Battle of Qarabagh and captured. The leader of the Aq Qoyunlu, Uzun Hasan handed him over...
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Principality of Zirqan (section Aq Qoyunlu period)
Kurdish principality founded in the north of Mardin in 1335. During the Aq Qoyunlu period, they controlled the Bitlis, Diyarbakır and Mardin regions. Zirqan...
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the ruling Timurid dynasty, or Timurids, had lost most of Persia to the Aq Qoyunlu confederation. However, members of the Timurid dynasty continued to rule...
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Farrukh Yasar (section Aq Qoyunlu)
combined forces of Shirvanshahs and the Aq Qoyunlu defeated Timurid khan Abu Sa'id Mirza. Future sultans of the Aq Qoyunlu – Baysunghur and Murad – were his...
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his claim to Aq Qoyunlu rule. It was therefore only in 1508 that the last regions of Aq Qoyunlu power finally fell to Esma'il. "AQ QOYUNLŪ" at Encyclopædia...
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Battle of Otlukbeli (category Battles of the Aq Qoyunlu)
The Battle of Otlukbeli or Otluk Beli was fought between Aq Qoyunlu and the Ottoman Empire on August 11, 1473. In autumn of 1463, Republic of Venice opened...
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33°06′N 44°35′E / 33.100°N 44.583°E / 33.100; 44.583 al-Madāʾin Al-Mada'in (Arabic: المدائن, al-Madāʾin; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: מחוזא Māḥozā; lit...
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Jalal al-Din Davani (category Scholars under the Aq Qoyunlu)
Qara Qoyunlu governor of Fars, Mirza Yusuf, and accompanied the latter's father Jahan Shah (r. 1438–1467) in his battle against the Aq Qoyunlu ruler...
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Jalairid Sultanate 1339–1432 Timurid Empire 1370–1507 Qara Qoyunlu Turcomans 1407–1468 Aq Qoyunlu Turcomans 1378–1508 Safavid Empire 1501–1722 Mughal Empire...
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Urfa (section Mamluk and Aq Qoyunlu rules)
western frontier.: 7 The Aq Qoyunlu took it in perhaps the late 1410s or early 1420s.: 219 At some point, the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Kara Osman granted Urfa...
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era Damavand; Masmughans of Damavand Dinavar; Hasanwayhids Diyarbakır; Aq Qoyunlu Fuman; Dabuyid Farim (Perim); Bavandid Firozkoh; Ghurid Firuzkuh; Chalavi...
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started during the rule of the Qarā Qoyunlu dynasty (1351–1469) and was completed in 1465 during the reign of the Āq Qoyunlu The famous Blue Mosque is widely...
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