Middle East Kingdoms

The White Sheep Emirate / Ak Qoyunlu
AD 1403 - 1508

The Ak Qoyunlu were a Turkmen tribe which settled in eastern Anatolia during the mid-fourteenth century, while the region was politically divided.

1403 - 1438

Kara Osman

1435 - 1478

Uzun Hassan

1468

The White Sheep Emirate overruns the Black Sheep Emirate.

1478

Soltan Khalil

1478 - 1490

Yaqub

1492 - 1494

Rostam

1497

Ahmed

1497 - 1508

Murad

1508

The White Sheep have for some years been torn by internal fighting. Thus weakened they are defeated by the Persian Safavids in 1503, and the dynasty ends with the death of Murad.