Bayram Khwaja

Bayram Khwaja
Bey of Kara Koyunlu
Reign1351 – 1380
PredecessorQara Mansur
SuccessorQara Mahammad
Died1380
DynastyQara Qoyunlu
FatherQara Mansur
ReligionSunni Islam (Hanafi)

Bayram Khwaja Yiwa was the founder of the Qara Qoyunlu, a Muslim Turkoman tribal confederation, that in a short space of time came to rule the territory comprising present-day Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, northwestern Iran, eastern Turkey, and northeastern Iraq from about 1374 to 1468.

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