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54-462: Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are dry and hot. The area has been a crossroads since antiquity, with archaeological evidence indicating habitation since 4000 BC. Surface excavations in the village of Küçükhöyük go back to 3000 BC. The name Sinan Paşa comes from the son of a lord of the Akkoyunlu Turks who in 1473 took refuge with Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II during the war between

108-657: A first cousin of Bayezid II. However, the marriage of Sittişah Hatun took place two years after Bayezid was born and the whole arrangement was not to Mehmed's liking. Born in Demotika , Bayezid II was educated in Amasya and later served there as a bey for 27 years. In 1473, he fought in the Battle of Otlukbeli against the Aq Qoyunlu . Bayezid II's overriding concern was the quarrel with his brother Cem Sultan , who claimed

162-668: A large part of the people, especially the Turks. Therefore, the vast majority of Turks became involved in the Safawiya order, which became a militant organization with an extreme Shiite ideology led by Sheikh Haydar . Ya'qub initially sent Sheikh Haydar and his followers to a holy war against the Circassians , but soon decided to break the alliance because he feared the military power of Sheikh Haydar and his order. During his march to Georgia , Sheikh Haydar attacked one of Ya'qub's vassals,

216-636: A month after his abdication. He was buried next to the Bayezid Mosque in Istanbul . Bayezid was praised in a ghazal of Abdürrezzak Bahşı, a scribe who came to Constantinople from Samarkand in the second half of the 15th century that worked at the courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II, and wrote in Chagatai with the Old Uyghur alphabet : I had a pleasant time in your reign my Padishah. I

270-498: A number of instances served under different dynasties for several generations. The four top civil posts of the Aq Qoyunlu were all occupied by Iranians, which under Uzun Hasan included; the vizier, who led the great council ( divan ); the mostawfi al-mamalek , high-ranking financial accountants; the mohrdar , who affixed the state seal; and the marakur "stable master", who supervised the royal court. Culture flourished under

324-627: A period of cultural flourishing, with the presence of such scholars as the Talmudist and scientist Mordecai Comtino ; astronomer and poet Solomon ben Elijah Sharbiṭ ha-Zahab ; Shabbethai ben Malkiel Cohen, and the liturgical poet Menahem Tamar. During Bayezid II's final years, on 14 September 1509, Constantinople was devastated by an earthquake , and a succession battle developed between his sons Selim and Ahmet . Ahmet unexpectedly captured Karaman , and began marching to Constantinople to exploit his triumph. Fearing for his safety, Selim staged

378-555: A result, Uzun Hasan was defeated by the Ottomans at the Battle of Otlukbeli in 1473, though this did not destroy the Aq Qoyunlu. In 1470, Uzun selected Abu Bakr Tihrani to compile a history of the Aq Qoyunlu confederation. The Kitab-i Diyarbakriyya , written in Persian, referred to Uzun Hasan as sahib-qiran and was the first historical work to assign this title to a non-Timurid ruler. Uzun Hasan preserved relationships with

432-672: A revolt in Thrace but was defeated by Bayezid and forced to flee back to the Crimean peninsula. Bayezid II developed fears that Ahmet might in turn kill him to gain the throne, so he refused to allow his son to enter Constantinople. Selim returned from Crimea and, with support from the Janissaries , he forced his father to abdicate the throne on 25 April 1512. Bayezid departed for retirement in his native Dimetoka , but he died on 26 May 1512 at Havsa , before reaching his destination and only

486-577: A threat to their neighbors. The early Safavids , who were followers of the Safaviyya religious order, began to undermine the allegiance of the Aq Qoyunlu. The Safavids and the Aq Qoyunlu met in battle in the city of Nakhchivan in 1501 and the Safavid leader Ismail I forced the Aq Qoyunlu to withdraw. In his retreat from the Safavids, the Aq Qoyunlu leader Alwand destroyed an autonomous state of

540-605: A tool to drive the Turks out of Europe, but as the papal crusade failed to come to fruition, Cem died in Naples. Bayezid II ascended the Ottoman throne in 1481. Like his father, Bayezid II was a patron of western and eastern culture. Unlike many other sultans, he worked hard to ensure a smooth running of domestic politics, which earned him the epithet of "the Just". Throughout his reign, Bayezid II engaged in numerous campaigns to conquer

594-690: A tour of the communities and was instrumental in imposing a tax upon the rich, to ransom the Jewish victims of the persecution. The Muslims and Jews of al-Andalus contributed much to the rising power of the Ottoman Empire by introducing new ideas, methods and craftsmanship. The first printing press in Constantinople (now Istanbul ) was established by the Sephardic Jews in 1493. It is reported that under Bayezid's reign, Jews enjoyed

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648-485: Is first mentioned in late 14th century sources. It has been suggested that this name refers to old totemic symbols, but according to Rashid al-Din Hamadani , the Turks were forbidden to eat the flesh of their totem-animals, and so this is unlikely given the importance of mutton in the diet of pastoral nomads. Another hypothesis is that the name refers to the predominant color of their flocks. According to chronicles from

702-417: Is hellfire. Bayezid II ordered al-ʿAtufi, the librarian of Topkapı Palace , to prepare a register. The library's diverse holdings reflect a cosmopolitanism that was encyclopaedic in scope. Bayezid had ten known consorts: Bayezid had at least eight sons: Bayezid II, once ascended to the throne, granted his daughters and granddaughters in the male line the title of " Sultan " and his granddaughters in

756-482: Is named as Kam Ghan, a name otherwise unknown. In default of any better explanation, I therefore incline to the belief that the book was composed before Ak-koyunlu rulers had decided who their ancestors were. It was in 1403 that they ceased to be tribal chiefs and became Sultans, so we may assume that their official genealogy was formulated round about that date. According to the Kitab-i Diyarbakriyya ,

810-620: The Byzantine Empire , the Aq Qoyunlu are first attested in the district of Bayburt south of the Pontic Mountains from at least the 1340s. In these chronicles, Tur Ali Beg was mentioned as lord of the "Turks of Amid [Diyarbakir]", who had already attained the rank of amir under the Ilkhan Ghazan . Under his leadership, they besieged Trebizond , but failed to take the town. A number of their leaders, including

864-469: The Diyarbakir region by Qara Yuluk Uthman Beg , they ruled parts of present-day eastern Turkey from 1378 to 1503, and in their last decades also ruled Armenia , Azerbaijan , much of Iran , Iraq , and Oman where the ruler of Hormuz recognised Aq Qoyunlu suzerainty. The Aq Qoyunlu empire reached its zenith under Uzun Hasan . The name Aq Qoyunlu, literally meaning "those with white sheep",

918-597: The Fall of Constantinople in his youth. In July 1492, the new state of Spain expelled its Jewish and Muslim populations as part of the Spanish Inquisition . Bayezid II sent out the Ottoman Navy under the command of admiral Kemal Reis to Spain in 1492 in order to evacuate them safely to Ottoman lands. He sent out proclamations throughout the empire that the refugees were to be welcomed. He granted

972-536: The Shirvanshahs , in revenge for his father, Sheikh Junayd (assassinated in 1460), and Ya'qub sent troops to the Shirvanshahs , who defeated and killed Haydar and captured his three sons. This event further strengthened the pro-Safavid feeling among Azerbaijani and Anatolian Turkmen. Following Ya'qub's death, civil war again erupted, the Aq Qoyunlus destroyed themselves from within, and they ceased to be

1026-766: The Venetian possessions in Morea , accurately defining this region as the key to future Ottoman naval power in the Eastern Mediterranean . In 1497, he went to war with Poland and decisively defeated the 80,000 strong Polish army during the Moldavian campaign . The last of these wars ended in 1501 with Bayezid II in control of the whole Peloponnese. Rebellions in the east, such as that of the Qizilbash , plagued much of Bayezid II's reign and were often backed by

1080-687: The dynasty 's founder, Qara Yuluk Uthman Beg , married Byzantine princesses . By the end of the Ilkhanid period in the mid-14th century, the Oghuz tribes that comprised the Aq Qoyunlu confederation roamed the summer pastures in Armenia , in particular, the upper reaches of the Tigris river and winter pastures between the towns of Diyarbakır and Sivas . Since the end of the 14th century, Aq Qoyunlu waged constant wars with another tribal confederation of

1134-606: The shah of Iran, Ismail I , who was eager to promote Shi'ism to undermine the authority of the Ottoman state. Ottoman authority in Anatolia was indeed seriously threatened during this period and at one point Bayezid II's vizier , Hadım Ali Pasha , was killed in battle against the Şahkulu rebellion . Hadım Ali Pasha's death prompted a power vacuum. As a result, many important statesmen secretly pledged allegiance to Kinsman Karabœcu Pasha (Turkish: "Karaböcü Kuzen Paşa") who made his reputation in conducting espionage operations during

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1188-457: The "Oghuz il", and formerly inhabited Mangyshlak , Khwarazm and Turkestan , came and served in his court. He also made the tamga (seal) of the Bayandur tribe the symbol of his state. For this reason, the Bayandur tamga is found in Aq Qoyunlu coins, their official documents, inscriptions and flags. The Aq Qoyunlu Sultans claimed descent from Bayindir Khan, who was a grandson of Oghuz Khan,

1242-626: The Akkoyunlu and the warrior Uzun Hasan (the Otlukbeli War). Later in the Ottoman period the important general Hersekzade Ahmet Paşa settled here in the village still known as Ahmet Paşa today. The town was occupied by Greek forces during the Turkish War of Independence , but was recovered during the great Turkish counter-attack in 1922. Nowadays Sinanpaşa is a country town providing schools, hospital and other infrastructure to

1296-498: The Aq Qoyunlu army was based on the fusion of military traditions from both nomadic and settled cultures. The ethnic background of Aq-Qoyunlu troops were quite heterogeneous as it consisted of 'sarvars' of Azerbaijan, people of Persia and Iraq, Iranzamin askers, dilavers of Kurdistan, Turkmen mekhtars and others. Bayezid II Bayezid II ( Ottoman Turkish : بايزيد ثانى , romanized :  Bāyezīd-i s̱ānī ; Turkish : II. Bayezid ; 3 December 1447 – 26 May 1512)

1350-591: The Aq Qoyunlu in Mardin . The last Aq Qoyunlu leader, Sultan Murad , brother of Alwand, was also defeated by the same Safavid leader. Though Murād briefly established himself in Baghdad in 1501, he soon withdrew back to Diyar Bakr, signaling the end of the Aq Qoyunlu rule. Amidst the struggle for power between Uzun Hasan's grandsons Baysungur (son of Yaqub) and Rustam (son of Maqsud), their cousin Ahmed Bey appeared on

1404-428: The Aq Qoyunlu, who, although of coming from a Turkic background, sponsored Iranian culture. Uzun Hasan himself adopted it and ruled in the style of an Iranian king. Despite his Turkoman background, he was proud of being an Iranian. At his new capital, Tabriz, he managed a refined Persian court. There he utilized the trappings of pre-Islamic Persian royalty and bureaucrats taken from several earlier Iranian regimes. Through

1458-653: The Black Sheep Turkoman leader Jahān Shāh in 1467. After the death of Jahan Shah , his son Hasan Ali , with the help of Timurid Abu Sa'id Mirza , marched on Azerbaijan to meet Uzun Hasan. Deciding to spend the winter in Karabakh , Abu Sa'id was captured and repulsed by Uzun Hasan as the former advanced towards the Aras River . After the defeat of the Timurid leader, Abu Sa'id Mirza , Uzun Hasan

1512-606: The Chinggisid yasa (traditional nomadic laws of the medieval Turco-Mongols of the Eurasian steppe lands) was dissolved. Uzun Hasan's conquest of most of mainland Iran shifted the seat of power to the east, where the Aq Qoyunlu adopted Iranian customs for administration and culture. In the Iranian areas, Uzun Hasan preserved the previous bureaucratic structure along with its secretaries, who belonged to families that had in

1566-597: The Oghuz tribes, the Qara Qoyunlu . The leading Aq Qoyunlu tribe was the Bayandur tribe. Uzun Hasan used to assert the claim that he was an "honorable descendant of Oghuz Khan and his grandson, Bayandur Khan". In a letter dating to the year 1470, which was sent to Şehzade Bayezid , the then-governor of Amasya , Uzun Hasan wrote that those from the Bayandur and Bayat tribes, as well as other tribes that belonged to

1620-414: The Ottoman Empire to tell Sultan Bayezid II that Azerbaijan and Persian Iraq were defenceless and suggested that Ahmed Bey, heir to that kingdom, should be sent there with Ottoman troops. Bayezid agreed to this idea, and by May 1497 Ahmad Bey faced Rustam near Araxes and defeated him. After Ahmad's death, the Aq Qoyunlu became even more fragmented. The state was ruled by three sultans: Alvand Mirza in

1674-408: The ancestors of Uzun Hasan back to the prophet Adam in the 68th generation are listed by name and information is given about them. Among them is Tur Ali Bey, the grandfather of Uzun Hasan's grandfather, who is also mentioned in other sources. But it is difficult to say whether Pehlivan Bey, Ezdi Bey and Idris Bey, who are listed in earlier periods, really existed. Most of the people who are listed as

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1728-418: The ancestors of Uzun Hasan are names related to the Oghuz legend and to Oghuz rulers. The Aq Qoyunlu Turkomans first acquired land in 1402, when Timur granted them all of Diyar Bakr in present-day Turkey. For a long time, the Aq Qoyunlu were unable to expand their territory, as the rival Qara Qoyunlu or "Black Sheep Turkomans" kept them at bay. However, this changed with the rule of Uzun Hasan, who defeated

1782-528: The famous Sufi order, Rustam (1478–1490) immediately allowed Sheikh Haydar Safavi's sons to return to Ardabil in 1492. Two years later, Ayba Sultan ordered their re-arrest, as their rise threatened the Ak Koyunlu again, but their youngest son, Ismail , then seven years old, fled and was hidden by supporters in Lahijan . According to Hasan Rumlu's Ahsan al-tavarikh , in 1496–97, Hasan Ali Tarkhani went to

1836-553: The five years he spent at the Aq Qoyunlu court. Uzun Hasan and his son, Khalil, patronized, along with other prominent Sufis, members of the Kobrāvi and Neʿmatallāhi tariqats. According to the Tarikh-e lam-r-ye amini by Fazlallh b. Ruzbehn Khonji Esfahni, the court-commissioned history of Yaqub's reign, Uzun Hasan built close to 400 structures in the Aq Qoyunlu region for the purpose of Sufi communal retreat. In 1469, Uzun Hasan sent

1890-521: The governors of his European provinces, ordering them not only to refrain from repelling the Spanish refugees, but to give them a friendly and welcome reception. He threatened with death all those who treated the Jews harshly or refused them admission into the empire. Moses Capsali , who probably helped to arouse the sultan's friendship for the Jews, was most energetic in his assistance to the exiles. He made

1944-776: The head of the Timurid Sultan, Shāhrukh II bin Abu Sa'id, with an embassy to the court of the newly ascended al-Ashraf Qaytbay in Cairo. With these presents came a fathnama , in Persian, explaining to the Mamluk sultan the events leading up to the Aq Quyunlu—Timurid conflict approximately five months earlier, emphasizing in particular Sultan-Abu Sa'id's plans of aggression toward the Mamluk and Aq Quyunlu dominions—plans that were thwarted by Qaitbay's loyal peer Uzun Hasan. Despite

1998-516: The legendary ancestor of Oghuz Turks . According to Professor G. L. Lewis : The Ak-koyunlu Sultans claimed descent from Bayindir Khan and it is likely, on the face of it, that the Book of Dede Korkut was composed under their patronage. The snag about this is that in the Ak-koyunlu genealogy Bayindir's father is named as Gok ('Sky') Khan, son of the eponymous Oghuz Khan, whereas in our book he

2052-545: The members of the popular dervish order whose main inclinations were towards Shi'ism , while promoting the urban religious establishment with donations and confirmations of tax concessions or endowments, and ordering the pursuit of extremist Shiite and antinomist sects . He married his daughter Alamshah Halime Begum to his nephew Haydar , the new head of the Safavid sect in Ardabil . When Uzun Hasan died early in 1478, he

2106-468: The negative response from Qaitbay, Uzun Hasan's continued correspondence to the Mamluk Sultanate were in Persian. The Aq Qoyunlu administration encompassed of two sections; the military caste, which mostly consisted of Turkomans , but also had Iranian tribesmen in it. The other section was the civil staff, which consisted of officials from established Persian families. The organization of

2160-399: The refugees the permission to settle in the Ottoman Empire and become Ottoman citizens. He ridiculed the conduct of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile in expelling a class of people so useful to their subjects. "You venture to call Ferdinand a wise ruler," he said to his courtiers, "he who has impoverished his own country and enriched mine!" Bayezid addressed a firman to all

2214-725: The reign of Yaʿqūb, the Aq Qoyunlu court held a fondness for Persian poetry. 16th-century Azerbaijani poet Fuzuli was also born and raised under Aq Qoyunlu rule, writing his first known poem for Shah Alvand Mirza . Nur al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman Jami dedicated his poem, Salāmān va Absāl , which was written in Persian, to Yaʿqūb. Yaʿqūb rewarded Jami with a generous gift. Jami also wrote a eulogy, Silsilat al-zahab , which indirectly criticised Yaʿqūb immoral behavior. Yaʿqūb had Persian poems dedicated to him, including Ahli Shirazi's allegorical masnavi on love, Sham' va parvana and Bana'i's 5,000 verse narrative poem, Bahram va Bihruz . Yaʿqūb's maternal nephew, 'Abd Allah Hatifi, wrote poetry for

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2268-479: The semi-mythical founding father of the Oghuz, Oghuz Khagan . The Bayandurs behaved like statesmen rather than warlords and gained the support of the merchant and feudal classes of Transcaucasia (present-day Armenia , Azerbaijan , and Georgia ). The Aq Qoyunlu, along with the Qara Qoyunlu, were the last Iranian regimes that used their Chinggisid background to establish their legitimacy. Under Ya'qub Beg,

2322-529: The stage. Ahmed Bey was the son of Uzun Hasan's eldest son Ughurlu Muhammad , who, in 1475, escaped to the Ottoman Empire, where the sultan, Mehmed the Conqueror , received Uğurlu Muhammad with kindness and gave him his daughter in marriage, of whom Ahmed Bey was born. Baysungur was dethroned in 1491 and expelled from Tabriz . He made several unsuccessful attempts to return before he was killed in 1493. Desiring to reconcile both his religious establishment and

2376-567: The summer of 1503, Diyarbakir in 1507–1508 and Mesopotamia in the autumn of 1508. The last Aq Qoyunlu sultan, Morad, who hoped to regain the throne with the help of Ottoman troops, was defeated and killed by Ismail's Qizilbash warriors in the last fortress of Rohada, ending the political rule of the Aq Qoyunlu dynasty. The leaders of Aq Qoyunlu were from the Begundur or Bayandur clan of the Oghuz Turks and were considered descendants of

2430-616: The surrounding countryside, where poppy seeds, wheat and other grains are grown. This geographical article about a location in Afyonkarahisar Province , Turkey is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Aq Qoyunlu The Aq Qoyunlu or the White Sheep Turkomans ( Azerbaijani : Ağqoyunlular , آغ‌قویونلولار ; Persian : آق‌ قویونلو ) was a culturally Persianate , Sunni Turkoman tribal confederation . Founded in

2484-752: The throne and sought military backing from the Mamluks in Egypt. Karamani Mehmed Pasha , latest grand vizier of Mehmed II , informed him of the death of the Sultan and invited Bayezid to ascend the throne. Having been defeated by his brother's armies, Cem sought protection from the Knights of St. John in Rhodes . Eventually, the Knights handed Cem over to Pope Innocent VIII (1484–1492). The Pope thought of using Cem as

2538-720: The title Padishah -i Irān "Padishah of Iran", which was re-adopted by his distaff grandson Ismail I, founder of the Safavid Empire. The Aq Qoyunlu realm was notable for being inhabited by many prominent figures, such as the poets Ali Qushji (died 1474), Baba Fighani Shirazi (died 1519), Ahli Shirazi (died 1535), the poet, scholar and Sufi Jami (died 1492) and the philosopher and theologian, Jalal al-Din Davani (died 1503). The Aq Qoyunlu patronized Persian belles-lettres which included poets like Ahli Shirazi , Kamāl al-Dīn Banāʾī Haravī, Bābā Fighānī, Shahīdī Qumī. By

2592-757: The use of his increasing revenue, Uzun Hasan was able to buy the approval of the ulama (clergy) and the mainly Iranian urban elite, while also taking care of the impoverished rural inhabitants. In letters from the Ottoman Sultans, when addressing the kings of Aq Qoyunlu, such titles as Arabic : ملك الملوك الأيرانية "King of Iranian Kings", Arabic : سلطان السلاطين الإيرانية "Sultan of Iranian Sultans", Persian : شاهنشاه ایران خدیو عجم Shāhanshāh-e Irān Khadiv-e Ajam " Shahanshah of Iran and Ruler of Persia", Jamshid shawkat va Fereydun rāyat va Dārā derāyat "Powerful like Jamshid , flag of Fereydun and wise like Darius " have been used. Uzun Hassan also held

2646-552: The west, Uzun Hasan's nephew Qasim in an enclave in Diyarbakir , and Alvand's brother Mohammad in Fars and Iraq-Ajam (killed by violence in the summer of 1500 and replaced by Morad Mirza). The collapse of the Aq Qoyunlu state in Iran began in the autumn of 1501 with the defeat at the hands of Ismail Safavi, who had left Lahijan two years earlier and gathered a large audience of Turkmen warriors. He conquered Iraq-Ajami, Fars and Kerman in

2700-487: Was able to take Baghdad along with territories around the Persian Gulf . He expanded into Iran as far east as Khorasan . However, around this time, the Ottoman Empire sought to expand eastwards, a serious threat that forced the Aq Qoyunlu into an alliance with the Karamanids of central Anatolia. As early as 1464, Uzun Hasan had requested military aid from one of the Ottoman Empire's strongest enemies, Venice . Despite Venetian promises, this aid never arrived and, as

2754-448: Was succeeded by his son Khalil Mirza , but the latter was defeated by a confederation under his younger brother Ya'qub at the battle of Khoy in July. Ya'qub, who reigned from 1478 to 1490, sustained the dynasty for a while longer. However, during the first four years of his reign there were seven pretenders to the throne who had to be put down. Unlike his father, Ya'qub Beg was not interested in popular religious rites and alienated

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2808-438: Was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. During his reign, Bayezid consolidated the Ottoman Empire, thwarted a pro- Safavid rebellion and finally abdicated his throne to his son, Selim I . Bayezid evacuated Sephardi Jews from Spain following the fall of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada and the proclamation of the Alhambra Decree and resettled them throughout Ottoman lands, especially in Salonica . Bayezid II

2862-409: Was the son of Şehzade Mehmed (later Mehmed II ) and Gülbahar Hatun , an Albanian concubine. At the time he was born, his grandfather Murad II was Sultan. When his grandfather died in 1451, his father became Sultan. There are sources that claim that Bayezid was the son of Sittişah Hatun , due to the two women's common middle name, Mükrime. This would make Ayşe Hatun, one of Bayezid's consorts,

2916-472: Was without fear of all fears and dangers. The fame of your justice and fairness reached to China and Hotan. Thanks to God that there exist a merciful person like my Padishah. Sultan Bayezid Khan ascended the throne. This country had been his fate since past eternity. Any enemy that denied the country of my master: That enemy's neck had been in rope and gallows. Your believing servants' faces smile like Bahşı's. The place of those who walk unbelieving

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