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
IssueKnown only:
  • Ibrahim Bey (died 1408)
  • Abel Bey - was captured by the Mamluks in 1429
  • Ali bey
  • Hamza bey
  • Uveys Bey
  • Hasan Bey
  • Yakub bey She had a daughter named Ruqiyya sultan, and in 1401 she married Seyid Ahmed, the son of Miranshah.[1]
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[2] tribal federation of Aq Qoyunlu in what is now eastern Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Iraq.

  1. ^ İlhan Erdem - Akkoyunlu devletini meydana getiren aşiretler, s.256 Template:Vebarxiv
  2. ^ 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."