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Group: Kara Koyunlu (Black Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the
People: Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt
Topic: Ostsiedlung (German: Settlement in the East), a.k.a. German eastward expansion
Location: Noril'sk Taymyrskiy (Dolgano-Nenetskiy) Russia

Kara Koyunlu (Black Sheep Turks), (Turkmen) Emirate of the

Years: 1375 - 1468

The Kara Koyunlu or Qara Qoyunlu, also called the Black Sheep Turkomans, are a Shia Oghuz Turkic tribal federation that rules over the territory comprising the present-day Azerbaijan, Armenia (1406), northwestern Iran, eastern Turkey and Iraq from about 1375 to 1468.