| Uzun Hasan | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Padishah of Iran[1] | |||||
._Obverse.jpg) Gold Coin of Uzun Hasan | |||||
| Sultan of the Aq Qoyunlu | |||||
| Reign | Autumn of 1452[2] – 6 January 1478 | ||||
| Predecessor | Jahangir | ||||
| Successor | Sultan Khalil | ||||
| Born | 1423 Diyarbakir[3] | ||||
| Died | January 6, 1478 (aged 54–55) | ||||
| Spouse | Seljuk Shah Khatun Jan Khatun Tarjil Khatun Despina Khatun | ||||
| Issue | Ughurlu Muhammad Sultan-Khalil Yaqub Beg Maqsud Beg Yusuf Beg Masih Beg Zegnel Beg Alamshah Halima Khatun[4] Two other daughters | ||||
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| Dynasty | Aq Qoyunlu | ||||
| Father | Ali Beg | ||||
| Mother | Sara Khatun | ||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||
| Tughra |  | ||||
Uzun Hasan or Uzun Hassan (Azerbaijani: Uzun Həsən; Persian: اوزون حسن; where uzun means "tall" in Oghuz Turkic; 1423 – January 6, 1478) was a ruler of the Turkoman[5] Aq Qoyunlu state and is generally considered to be its strongest ruler.[6] Hasan ruled between 1452 and 1478, and would preside over the confederation's territorial apex when it included parts or all of present-day Iraq, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Transcaucasia and Syria.
- ^ H.R. Roemer, "The Safavid Period", in Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. VI, Cambridge University Press 1986, p. 339: "Further evidence of a desire to follow in the line of Turkmen rulers is Ismail's assumption of the title 'Padishah-i-Iran', previously held by Uzun Hasan."
- ^ Ehsan Yar-Shater (1982). Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. 2. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 165.
Uzun Ḥasan successfully resumed the war with the Qara Qoyunlū and in the autumn of 856/1452 seized Āmed in a bloodless coup while Jahāngīr was away on a military expedition in Kurdistan.
- ^ Kia, Mehrdad. The Ottoman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia [2 Volumes.] ABC-CLIO, 2017.
- ^ Called Martha by Christian sources
- ^ V. Minorsky. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3 (1955), pp. 449–462: "There still remain many interesting and important problems connected with the emergence in the 14th century of the Turkman federations of the Qara-qoyunlu (780–874/1378–1469) and Aq-qoyunlu (780–908/1378–1502). The roots of the Persian Risorgimento under the Safavids (1502–1722) go deep into this preparatory period."
- ^ V. Minorsky, "The Aq-qoyunlu and Land Reforms (Turkmenica, 11)", Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 17 (1955), pp. 449–462: "There still remain many interesting and important problems connected with the emergence in the 14th century of the Turkman federations of the Qara-qoyunlu (780–874/1378–1469) and Aq-qoyunlu (780–908/1378–1502). The roots of the Persian Risorgimento under the Safavids (1502–1722) go deep into this preparatory period."