kara koyunlu

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or Qara Qoyunlu (Turkish; "Black Sheep") Turkmen tribal federation that ruled Azerbaijan and Iraq ( 1375-1468). Their second leader, Kara Ysuf (r. 1390-1400, 1406-20), secured their independence by seizing Tabrz, the capital of the Jalyrid dynasty. He was beaten back by the armies of Timur but regained Tabrz in 1406. He captured Baghdad in 1410. His successor, Jihn Shah, died in battle against a rival Turkmen federation, the Ak Koyunlu, in 1466, and the empire fell in 1468