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		Kara Koyunlu [Turkish KARAKOYUNLULAR, English Black Sheep], is a Turkmen tribal federation that ruled Azerbaijan and Iraq from about 1375 to 1468.
		He then secured the Kara Koyunlu position against threats from the Ak Koyunlu ("White Sheep"), a rival Turkmen federation in the province of Diyar Bakr (modern Iraq), and from the Georgians and Shirvan-Shahs in the Caucasus and Timur's successors in Iran.
		Jihan Shah's rule was repeatedly troubled, however, by his rebellious sons and by the semiautonomous Kara Koyunlu rulers of Baghdad, whom he expelled in 1464.
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	Kara Koyunlu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, in 1400, the armies of Tamerlane defeated the Black Sheep Turkomans, and Kara Yusuf fled to Egypt and sought refuge with the Mamelukes.
		Despite internal fighting amongst Kara Yusuf's descendants after his death in 1420, and the increasing threat of the Timurids, the Black Sheep Turkomans maintained a strong grip over the areas they controlled.
		Though much territory was gained during his rule, Jihan Shah's reign was troubled by his rebellious sons and the almost autonomous rulers of Baghdad, whom he expelled in 1464.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Sheep_Turkmen (328 words)

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	Karabakh.org \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Yar Ahmed Karamanlu took an active part in the battle between Kara Yousif and the united forces of Shirvanshah Ibrahim, the ruler of Sheki Sidi Ahmed and the Georgian king Constantine.
		In 1410 Kara Yousif established a new state of Kara-Koyunlu, with the capital in Tabriz.
		After Kara Yousif's death the Kara-Koyunlu State weakened as a result of feudal quarrels and continuous attacks of the Timurids to Azerbaijan.
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	The origin of the Safavids
		Ibrahim (1427-1447), the son of Khwaja Ali also continued the Sufi order founded by Shaikh Safi, but Junayd (1447-1460), the son of Ibrahim acquired some political power and introduced the doctrines of the Twelvers at the time of his death in 1460.
		He fought several times with the rulers of Kara-Koyunlu, but was killed at Shirwan.
		He also inflicted defeat to the Mongolian ruler and was proclaimed as Shah Ismail and founded the Safavid dynasty in 905/1500 in Iran.
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		The Kara Koyunlu gave the Timurids quite a difficult time and even managed to temporarily occupy the Timurid capital of Herat, which is in present-day Afghanistan.
		The conflict between the Kara Koyunlu and the Ak Koyunlu was equally ferocious.
		In 1435 a Kara Koyunlu leader killed Kara Qasim, the Amir of the Ak Koyunlu.
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		Strictly speaking, the ruler is the instrument used to rule and calibrated stick for measurement is called a measu..
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		Originally the western part of the Landgraviate of Thuringia, in the mid 13th Century it was inherited by the younger son of Henry II, Duke of Brabant, and became a distinct political entity.
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	Black Sheep Turkmen biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Black Sheep Turkmen were vassals of the Jalayirid dynasty in Baghdad and Tabriz from about 1375, when the leader of their leading tribe, ruled over Mosul.
		However, in 1400, the armies of Tamerlane defeated the Black Sheep Turkmen, and Kara Yusuf fled to Egypt and sought refuge with the Mamelukes.
		Despite internal fighting amongst Kara Yusuf's descendents after his death in 1420, and the increasing threat of the Timurids, the Black Sheep Turkmen maintained a strong grip over the areas they controlled.
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	Rulers of Kara Koyunlu - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Rulers of Kara Koyunlu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Rulers of Kara Koyunlu - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Rulers of Kara Koyunlu.
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		Vagharshak's son Arshak and his grandson Artashes were very successful rulers as well, but it was perhaps the son of the latter, Tigranes II, who distinguished himself as the most glorious among all Armenian kings.
		The next ruler, the bellicose Leon I was less fortunate, as the Emperor John II Comnenus arrested him and seized all of his domains.
		The Shah Abbas I, the greatest of the Safavid rulers, led the policy of intensive settling of the Muslims on the Armenian lands, while the Armenian population was moved to Iran.
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	Paradox Interactive Forums - Black Sheep: A Kara Koyunlu AAR
		Kara Koyunlu, or in English "Black Sheep" were a Turkish tribal federation located in modern day Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, and Anatolia.
		By 1520, Kara Koyunlu's economy had grown significantly with two Centers of Trade in their hands, one in Azerbaijan and the other in Alexandria.
		He opened the eyes of the people of Kara Koyunlu by showing them maps of the new world, and now his son Azem II was ready to ascent to the throne of the Black Sheep.
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	Kara Koyunlu -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Despite internal fighting amongst Kara Yusuf's descendents after his death in 1420, and the increasing threat of the (Click link for more info and facts about Timurid) Timurids, the Black Sheep Turkomans maintained a strong grip over the areas they controlled.
		Though much territory was gained during his rule, Jihan Shah's reign was troubled by his rebellious sons and the almost (Click link for more info and facts about autonomous) autonomous rulers of Baghdad, whom he expelled in 1464.
		By 1468, the White Sheep Turkomans had swept away the last vestiges of the Black Sheep Turkomans.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/kara_koyunlu.htm (237 words)

	Karakoyunlu State (1365-1469)
		Timurlu ruler Shahruh spent the winter of 1436 in Karabag and came to Ucan in the spring and enthroned Cihan-shah with the sovereignty of the countries of Azerbaijan and Erran.
		Pursuant to the slaying of Iskender, Cihan-shah who was one of Kara Yusuf's sons became the only sovereign of all the countries of the Karakoyunlu State apart from Iraq.
		Upon the death of Timurlu ruler Shahruh in the year of 1447, Cihan Shah became an independent ruler, and started to use the titles of sultan and khan.
	www.ozturkler.com /data_english/0003/0003_02_19.htm (1696 words)

	Timur and Timurids
		After the death in 1357 of Transoxonia's ruler, Amir Kazgan, Timur declared his fealty to the khan of nearby Kashgar, Tughluq Temur, who had overrun Transoxonia's chief city, Samarkand, in 1361.
		The years 1449-69 were marked by a constant struggle between the Timurid Abu Sa'id and the Uzbek confederations of Kara Koyunlu and Ak Koynlu.
		Muhammad Shaibani in 1506, the Timurid ruler of Fergana, Zahir-ud-Din Babur, survived the collapse of dynasty and established the line of Mughal emperors in India in 1526.
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		Turk Kaganates, a very high ranking political personage." From available sources, it is known that Tonyukuk was the chief advisor to rulers Ilteris and Bilga Kagan, the latter of whom was apparently responsible for all the Orkhon stelas, including one erected in Tonyukuk's honor ca.
		The majority of those Arslan lived 11-13th centuries A. (It must be remembered that many individuals in Central Asian history had their given names before assuming titles associated with acquired or inherited positions of authority).
		The selection of a ruler often is decided in a kurultay or kengesh.
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		The rulers settled in Transoxania and in some mesaure abandoned the nomadic traditions, which led to their alienation from the eastern regions.
		Under the later rulers of Transoxania,the Ozbeg'swho were contemporaries of the Safavids in Iran,similar trends are seen towards sedentarization and Turkicization.
		In the lands of the Golden Horde,the lands of the grandfathers of the Ozbegs,which were also called the Ulus of Joci,Batu had given to his brother Shayban,the territories to the east of the Ural mountains and Ural Rivers as summer quarters and the lower parts of the Syr Darya,Chu,and Sari Su as winter quarters.
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		Ibn Khaldun ridiculed the claim of the philosophers that the ruler is necessarily one endowed by divine guidance for the exercise of the restraining influence of the religious law by noting that the majority of people have political communities without revealed guidance (Ibid.
		The Djalairid dynasty was overthrown in 1410 by Kara Yusuf, chieftain of a federation of Turcomen tribes called the Kara Koyunlu.
		When the Ak Koyunlu realized that they were headed down the road of disintegration they tried to take back many of the fiefs and waqf land but were opposed by both the lords and the theologians.
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		Ashikaga Takauji, de facto ruler of Japan (Northern Court), assumed the title of Shogun and established the Muromachi Shogunate.
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		In 908 the Artsruni principate of Vaspurakan became a kingdom recognized by the caliph; in 961 Mushegh, the brother of Ashot III, founded the Bagratid kingdom of Kars; and in 970 the prince of Eastern Siuniq declared himself a king.
		A few native Armenian rulers survived for a time in the Kiurikian kingdom of Lori, the Siuniqian kingdom of Baghq or Kapan, and the principates of Khachen (Artzakh) and Sasun.
		On the death of Timur in 1405, the eastern Armenian regions had passed into the hands of rival Turkmen tribal confederacies, the Kara Koyunlu (Black Sheep) and the Ak Koyunlu (White Sheep), until the defeat of the Ak Koyunlu by the Persian Shah Esma'il I in 1502.
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	LIST OF KINGS OF PERSIA FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Some have offered evidence for a linguistic kinship between Elamite and the modern Dravidian_languages of Southern India (see "Elamo-Dravidian_languages") but this is not universally accepted.
		The Parthians gradually expanded their control, until by the mid 2nd_century_BC, the Seleucids had completely lost control of Persia.
		There were more Seleucid rulers of Syria and, for a time, Babylonia, after Antiochus IV, but none had any effective power in Persia).
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	Chronology of World Events History Summary
		Khizr Khan, former governor of the Punjab, becomes ruler of the Delhi sultanate, beginning a reign known as the Sayyid dynasty, because the leaders claimed to be descendants of the Prophet Muhammad.
		The Kara Koyunlu destroy remnants of the Jalayirid dynasty of Iraq, which had fled to areas around Basra.
		The Muslim Moguls, rulers of an empire centered at Kabul (in modern Afghanistan), invade India, subduing a large part of the subcontinent.
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		Related to the Vlachs (especially to their wandering Farseroti branch) and to the Sarakatsani, the Karagouni or Karagounidhes are another puzzling tribe whose original ethnic affiliation is difficult to decrypt at present with accuracy.
		We are the descendants of the "Tribe of the Ak Koyunlu" the "Tribe of the White Sheep" famed for being the only tribe in history capable of inflicting a defeat on Tamerlane.
		History is full of such minor arrangements between neighbours, who then found themselves allied together against their respective rulers.
	www.vlachophiles.net /conf.htm (3739 words)

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		The Kara Koyunlu and the Ak Koyunlu slugged it out in a struggle to take control of Iran as a whole.
		Thus a greater variety of ceramic ware was produced.
		However, some of the later Safavi rulers were weak and inept.
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	Thunder Tour & Travel Co.: Tabriz
		The oldest stone tablet with a reference to Tabriz is related to Sargon II one of the Assyrian rulers 714 BC.
		Following the demise of Timur, Kara Yousf of Kara Koyunlu defeated his successors and established the Kara Koyunlu dynasty in this city (1375-1468).
		Jahanshah was the most famous King of this dynasty during whose rule the famouse Kabud or Blue mosque was built.
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	Jahan Shah -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Mughals were an Islamic dynasty that ruled large parts of India from the early 16th century until the middle of the 18th.
		In the 200-year history of India's Mughal Empire, which was founded in 1530, Aurangzeb was the last great ruler.
		She was Arjumand Banu Begum (begum is a title for a Muslim woman of high social rank), the favorite wife of Shah Jahan, who was the Muslim ruler of India's Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1658.
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		'Creator, Ruler, if you were not going to grant me offspring, why did you (bother) to bring me to life?' Baybori was weeping thus, asking for a child from God daily.
		In default of any better explanation, I therefore incline to the belief that the book was composed before the Ak-koyunlu rulers had decided who their ancestors were.
		It was in 1403 that they ceased to be tribal chiefs and became Sultans, so we may assume that their official genealogy was formulated round about that date."37 In Lewis' translation, "The Tale of Bamsi Beyrek" is about 12,000 words long.
	www.euronet.nl /users/turkfed/alpamys4.txt (15460 words)

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		There is a good historical overview of the different rulers, a long discussion of numismatic developments during each reign, and a catalogue with decent fl and white plates.
		An extensive guide to identification of coins of German states, with history and rulers of cities and states and a general monetary history of Germany.
		A catalogue of talers issued by the rulers of German states in the 17th century.
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	East Azarbyjan Cultural Heritage Organization
		the year 198 A.H., when Mamoun was still the ruler of Khorassan and had delegated Hasan Ibn Sahl to Iraq, a number of top military brass Arabs claimed independence.
		During this period, Babak Khorramdin who was the famous commander of Azerbaijan took advantage of the weakness of caliphate (government) and seized power in the important regions of northeastern Azerbaijan.
		Jalayer Khan, Chupanian and Turkmens became rulers in some parts of this area.
	www.eazarbayjanmiras.ir /english/East_History2.htm (1113 words)

	List of kings of Persia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Rulers after the advent of Islam in Iran
		In 1410 the Turcoman horde Kara Koyunlu (Black Sheep) captured Baghdad and their leaders ruled the western parts of the Timurid realm.
		In the East however, Shah Rukh was able to secure his rule in Transoxiana and Fars.
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