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The Jalayirid sultanate lasted about fifty years, until disrupted by Tamerlane's conquests and the revolts of the "Black sheep Turks" or Kara Koyunlu. After Tamerlane's death in 1405, there was a brief unsuccessful attempt to re-establish the Jalayirid sultanate. Statue of Timur in Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan Tīmūr bin Taraghay Barlas (Chagatai Turkic: تیمور - Tēmōr, iron) (1336 – February 1405) was a 14th-century warlord of Turco-Mongol descent[1][2][3][4], conqueror of much of Western and central Asia, and founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405... The Karakoyunlu or the Black Sheep Turkomans (Azeri-Turkish: Qaraqoyunlular/Karakoyunlular) were a Turkoman tribal federation that ruled what is today Azerbaijan, including present-day northwestern Iran and Iraq from 1375 to 1468. ...

See also

• Hasan-i Bozorg
• Sheikh Oveis
• Hasan (Jalayirids)
• Husain (Jalayirids)
• Ahmad (Jalayirids)

Shaikh Hasan, called Buzurg (The Great), was the first of several de facto independent Jalayirid rulers of Iraq and central Iran. ... Shaikh Uvais (also known as Uways or Oways) was a Jalayirid ruler of Iraq (1356-1374) and Azerbaijan (1360-1374). ... Hasan (d. ... Husain (d. ... Sultan Ahmad was a Jalayirid ruler (1382-1410). ...

References

• The History Files Rulers of Persia

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