The Kara Koyunlu, also known as the Qara Qoyunlu or the Black Sheep Turkomans, was a Turkoman, culturally Persianate, Muslim dynasty that ruled territory comprising present-day Azerbaijan, Armenia, northwestern Iran, eastern Turkey and northeastern Iraq from about 1374 to 1468. Like the rival Aq Qoyunlu confederation to its west, it was organized around a Turkoman tribal military elite governing within a Persianate court culture, and the two confederations contested control of the same eastern Anatolian and Iranian borderlands through much of the fifteenth century.
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WikipediaKara Koyunlu: Status
The Kara Koyunlu, also known as the Qara Qoyunlu or the Black Sheep Turkomans, was a Turkoman, culturally Persianate, Muslim dynasty that ruled territory comprising present-day Azerbaijan, Armenia, northwestern Iran, eastern Turkey and northeastern Iraq from about 1374 to 1468.
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Succeeded By: Aq Qoyunlu, Decline
By 1468, at their height under Uzun Hasan (1452-1478), the Aq Qoyunlu defeated the Qara Qoyunlu and conquered Iraq, Azerbaijan, and western Iran.
In Era: The Post-Classical and Medieval Period, lead paragraph and infobox, existence dates
The Qara Qoyunlu or Kara Koyunlu (, ; ), also known as the Black Sheep Turkomans, were a Turkoman, culturally Persianate, Muslim dynasty that ruled
In Era: The Early Modern Period, lead paragraph and infobox, existence dates
The Qara Qoyunlu or Kara Koyunlu (, ; ), also known as the Black Sheep Turkomans, were a Turkoman, culturally Persianate, Muslim dynasty that ruled
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