Qara Qoyunlu, meaning the Black Sheep Turkomans, was a Turkoman dynasty that ruled parts of Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Iraq in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The confederation rose in the aftermath of the Mongol Ilkhanate, with its base around Lake Van, and it competed with other Turkic powers, especially the Aq Qoyunlu, or White Sheep Turkomans. Its most powerful ruler was Jahan Shah, who controlled a large territory from Tabriz and also built the Blue Mosque of Tabriz. After defeats by Timur and his successors the state recovered, but it weakened because of dynastic struggles and was finally defeated by Uzun Hasan of the Aq Qoyunlu in the 1460s.
Before and after
- from 1373 to 1379Byzantine civil war of 1373–1379
- 1373Construction of Leaning Tower of Pisa
- 19 July 1374Death of Petrarch
- from 1375 to 1378War of the Eight Saints
- from 1375 to 1468Qara Qoyunlu
- 21 December 1375Death of Giovanni Boccaccio
- c. 1377Construction of Bran Castle
- 1377Construction of Ulm Minster
- from 1378 to 1508Aq Qoyunlu
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