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Middle East Kingdoms
Asia Minor
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.