Abstract:

The Ak-Koyun, which belongs to the length of the many arms of their sons, is one of the Turkmen lengths that come from Central Asia to Anadolu along with the Mongol invasion. The Ak-Koyun, named together with the Kara-Koyunans in Eastern Anadolu during the inhitat and incrust periods of the Divine State founded by the Mongols in Azerbaijan, Iran and Anatolia, first settled in the Choruh Valley in Anatolia. In this region, they first competed with the Trabzon Komnenos family and then with the Kara-Goyons because of the Erzurum rule. The Ak-Koyun, who followed the Timurlans who ruled the regions of Iran, Azerbaijan and Iraq, became the ruler of the district of Diyar-i Bekr, passing to a superior position against the Kara-Koyun. The Ak-Koyun, who were forced to follow the Kara-Koyun after the retreat of the Timur from Eastern Anadolu, Azerbaijan and Iran, became the ruler of the mosque regions after 872/1467. For the first time in Anadolu, they fought with the Communists, the Kara-Koyunans and the Ottomans for the domination of the Choruh Valley. In this book, first the Eastern, then the Kara-Koyunlu and later the Ak-Koyunlu State served by the münshist and historic Abû Bekr-i Tihrânî’s Book-i Diyârbekriyye’s work is discussed the struggle that the Ak-Koyunles gave for the rule of the Choruh Valley.

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