Qara Qoyunlu
Qara Qoyunlu قره قویونلو | |||||||||||||
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| 1374–1468 | |||||||||||||
Maximum extent of Qara Qoyunlu territory ( ) in 1458 under Jahan Shah | |||||||||||||
| Status | Confederate sultanate | ||||||||||||
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| Religion | Shia Islam (possibly) | ||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||
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• 1374–1378 | Bayram Khwaja (first) | ||||||||||||
• 1467–1468 | Hasan Ali (last) | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||
• Established | 1374 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1468 | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 520.000 km2 (200.773 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Currency | Tanka | ||||||||||||
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The Qara Qoyunlu or Kara Koyunlu (Azerbaijani: Qaraqoyunlular, قاراقویونلولار; Persian: قره قویونلو), also known as the Black Sheep Turkomans, were a culturally Persianate, Muslim Turkoman monarchy that ruled over the territory comprising present-day Azerbaijan, Armenia, northwestern Iran, eastern Turkey, and northeastern Iraq from about 1374 to 1468.