List of rulers of Kara Koyunlu

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This is the list of rulers of Kara Koyunlu dynasty ("The Horde of the Black Sheep"). The dynasty ruled the territory now part of present-day Iran, Iraq and eastern Turkey. Their capital was the city of Tabriz.

[edit] Kara Koyunlu rulers

Rule	Incumbent	Notes
1378/9 to c.1388	Qara Muhammad Turmush ibn Bairam Khwaja
c.1388 to 1399/1400	Abu Nasr Qara Yusuf Nuyan ibn Muhammad	1st Term
1399/1400 to 1405/6	Timurid invasion
1405/6 to 1420/1	Abu Nasr Qara Yusuf Nuyan ibn Muhammad	2nd Term
1420/1 to 1436	Qara Iskander ibn Yusuf
1436 to 10 November 1467	Muzaffar al-Din Jahan Shah ibn Yusuf	Killed by Uzun Hasan of the Ak Koyunlu
November 1467 to 1468	Hasan ’Ali ibn Jahan Shah
1468	Ak Koyunlu conquest