Diyarbakir
Turkey
Diyarbakir
in what is present day Turkey was the seat of the
Ak Koyunlu (the White Sheep Turkmen). It was
under the Turkmnen Seljuk of Rum 1241-1259. About
1255-59 Baiju Noyan the Mongol general took
Diyarbakir fron the feuding Seljuk princes Izz-al-din
and Rukn-al-din who managed to screw up their
vassal status with the Mongols to the point that
it was nessessary to take action against them.
The area dominated by Diyarbakir stayed in
IL-Khanid hands for more than 100 years. It as
given to the Ak Koyunlu by Timur in 1402 as a
reward for the Ak Koyunlu help in the battle of
Ankara 1.
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1.
Petersen, Andrew. Dictionary of Islamic
Architecture, Routledge, 1999
Turkish
Kilim/Kilem by Barry O'Connell
Ishak Prince of Karaman fled to the protection
of Uzun Hasan at Diyarbakir where
he died shortly afterwards. 1466 Pir Ahmad became
became Prince of Karaman ...
Elazig
Harput Kharput or Mamuret-ul Azi
Nov 15, 1989 ... the Murad Su
or Eastern Euphrates, and almost as near the
source of the Tigris, on the Samsun- Sivas-Diyarbakir road.
Pop. about 20000. ...
The
Kurdish People: an Analysis by language,
geography, religion ...
Oct 26, 2000 ... Diyarbakir,
Alevi (Alawi), Shabaki, ZZZ00, 980000, 1010000,
1010000. Dimli, Syria, ZAZA-GORANI, DIMLI, Zaza,
Dimli, Jezirah, Syria, ZZZ00 ...
Sultan
Suleiman the Magnificant
the Black Sea, Rumelia, Anatolia, Caramania,
Rum, Sulkadr, Diyarbakir,
Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, Persia, Damascus, Aleppo,
Cairo, Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, ...
1523
Ismail dies, leaving an empire extending from
Kerman, Khorasan, Turkestan, toDiyarbakir and
Iraq. He is succeeded by Tahmasp. ...