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Iskandar Sultan
Iskandar Sultan (1384–1415), son of Umar Shaykh of the Timurid Empire, once ruled Azerbaijan and Fars;…
Timeline
- 1403–1410Tabriz · TabrizAppointed ruler of Azerbaijan and other regions, he was later transferred to Fars, cultivating local power bases that checked both the imperial center and the Black Sheep Turkmen forces.
- 1411–1415Western Iran · Lorestan–Hamadan areaIn the 1410s he openly rebelled against his uncle Shahrukh, fighting imperial expeditionary forces in western Iran; in 1415 he was defeated, captured, and executed, marking a major crisis in the early Timurid internal divisions.
Sources
- Eskandar Solṭān https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/eskandar-soltan
- The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 6: The Timurid and Safavid Periods — Peter Jackson; Lawrence Lockhart (1986)