Qara Yuluk Uthman Beg

Uthman Beg
Leader of the Aq Qoyunlu
Reign1378 – 1435
PredecessorFakhr-ud-Din Qutlugh
SuccessorAli Beg
Bornc. 1356 (1356)
Died1435 (1436) (aged 79)
WivesDaughter of Alexios III of Trebizond
Niece of Rustam ibn Tarkhan
IssueYaqub
Hamza
Mahmud
Ali
Shaikh Hasan
Murad
Habil
Names
Baha-ud-Din Qara Yuluk Osman
DynastyAq Qoyunlu
FatherFakhr-ud-Din Qutlugh
MotherMaria Comnene of Trebizond

Uthman Beg or Osman Beg (Azerbaijani: Qara Yuluq Osman Bəy; Turkish: Kara Yülük Osman Bey; 1356 – 1435) was a late 14th and early 15th-century leader of the Turkoman[1] tribal federation of Aq Qoyunlu in what is now eastern Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Iraq.

  1. ^ Kaushik Roy, Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400-1750, (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38;"Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two tribal confederations: Akkoyunlu (White Sheep) (1378–1507) and Qaraoyunlu (Black Sheep). They were Persianate Turkoman Confederations of Anatolia (Asia Minor) and Azerbaijan."

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