Uzun Hassan

Uzun Hassan
Bey Iranian King of Kings Iranian Sultan of Sultans Shahanshah of Iran and Ruler of Persia Powerful like Jamshid, flag of Fereydun and wise like Darius Padishah of Iran
Uzun Hassan as depicted in this European illustration.
Reign	Diyarbakır: 1453 – 1471 Tabriz:1471 – January 6, 1478
Predecessor	Jahangir bin Ali Qilich Arslan bin Ahmed
Successor	Sultan Khalil bin Uzun Hasan
Born	1423 (1423)
Died	1478 (1479)
Consort	Seljuk Shah Begum Jan Begum Tarjil Begum Despina Khatun
Issue	Mirza Khalil Yaqub Maqsud Ughurlu Muhammad Yusuf Beg Masih Beg Halima Begum aka Martha Zaynalabidin Beg
Full name Uzun Hassan bin Ali bin Qara Yoluq Osman
Dynasty	Aq Qoyunlu
Father	Ali bin Qara Yoluq Osman
Mother	Sara Khatun

Uzun Hasan or Hassan (1423 – January 6, 1478) (Azerbaijani: اوزون حسن , Uzun Həsən; Turkish: Uzun Hasan, where uzun means "tall"; Persian: اوزون حسن‎‎) was the 9th sultan of the Aq Qoyunlu dynasty, also known as the White Sheep Turkomans, and generally considered to be its strongest ruler. Hassan ruled between 1453 and 1478, and would preside over the federations' territorial apex, when it included parts or all of present-day Iraq, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Transcaucasia and Syria.

Timur appointed his great-grandfather, Kara Yülük Osman, as a governor of Diyarbakır, with the cities of Erzincan, Mardin, Ruha (or Urfa), and Sivas. Later, Persia was divided between two Timurid rulers, Jahan Shah of Kara Koyunlu (the Black Sheep Turkoman) and Uzun Hasan. After twenty years of fighting, Uzun Hasan eventually defeated Jahan Shah in a battle near the sanjak of Çapakçur in present-day eastern Turkey on October 30 (or November 11), 1467. Upon the defeat of the latter, another Timurid ruler, Abu Sa'id Mirza, answered Jahan Shah's son's request for aid, taking much of Jahan Shah's former land and going to war with Uzun Hasan despite the latter's offers of peace. Uzun Hasan then ambushed and captured Abu Sa'id at the Battle of Qarabagh, whereupon he was executed by Yadgar Muhammad Mirza, a rival.