Kara Koyunlu
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Was a Turkoman monarchy that ruled over the territory comprising present-day Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, northwestern Iran, eastern Turkey, and northeastern Iraq.
Establishment
January 1375: The Kara Koyunlu rebelled against the Jalairids, and secured their independence from the dynasty with the conquest of Tabriz by Qara Yusuf.
Chronology
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Military campaigns of Timur (or Tamerlane), a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia.
1.1.Tokhtamysh-Timur war
Was a war between the Golden Horde and the Timurid Empire.
1.1.1.Timur's invasions of Georgia
Was the military invasion of Georgia by the Timurid Empire.
November 1386: Tamerlan occupied Tbilisi and captured the Georgian king Bagrat V.
June 1387: When Timur was informed that Tokhtamysh, Khan of the Golden Horde, was approaching Iran, he temporarily withdrew from the territories he had occupied in Georgia.
1.2.Timurid invasion Anatolia
Was a Timurid campaign in Anatolia, which was occupied for several years.
January 1401: Under the pretext of defending the Muslim lords of Anatolia, Tamerlane began the invasion of Armenia and eastern Anatolia.
January 1404: Fortunately for the Ottoman dynasty, in 1403 Tamerlane returned with his army to Samarkand, because he wanted to conquer China.
April 1408: In 1408, Qara Yusuf, ruler of the Kara Koyunlu Turkic tribal confederation, defeated Shah Rukh, the ruler of the Timurid Empire, captured Baghdad, and successfully repulsed the Timurids from western Persia, including the Caucasus region and Iraq.
January 1410: Annexation of the Artuqids of Mardin by Kara Koyunlu.
January 1411: Kara Yusuf, the sultan of Kara Koyunlu, captured Erzincan and put an end to the beylik.
January 1411: In 1410 Armenia fell under the control of the Kara Koyunlu.
January 1432: In 1431, King Alexander I of Georgia re-conquered the territory of Lori from the Turkomans. Lori was an important region in medieval Georgia.
January 1433: The Jalayirids were finally eliminated by the Kara Koyunlu in 1432.
January 1448: Jahan Shah made peace with the Timurid Shahrukh Mirza. However, this soon fell apart. When Shahrukh Mirza died in 1447, the Kara Koyunlu Turkomans annexed portions of Iraq and the eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula as well as Timurid-controlled western Iran.
January 1451: Kara Koyunlu territories conquered by the Kingdom of Georgia.
January 1463: In 1462 Sheykh Junayd, the leader of Safavids, was killed in a battle against Shirvanishans near the town of Khachmaz.
December 1467: Uzun Hasan defeated the Black Sheep Turkoman leader Jahān Shāh in 1467.
Disestablishment
December 1467: Uzun Hasan defeated the Black Sheep Turkoman leader Jahān Shāh in 1467.
Selected Sources
Ducas: Historia turco-bizantina 1341-1462, XXII [6]
