Rise of the Jalayirid Dynasty

Name: Rise of the Jalayirid Dynasty
Start: 1336
End: 1337

Type Event Region Iraq Time 1336–1337

Around 1336, Mongol Jalayirid chieftain Hasan Buzurg rose in the power vacuum after the Ilkhanate's collapse, seizing Baghdad and founding the Jalayi…

Timeline

1335–1336Iraq · IraqAfter Abu Sa'id's death, Jalayirid chieftain Hasan Buzurg ('Great Hasan') successively backed rival claimants to the throne, accumulating military and political power in Iraq.
1336Baghdad · Baghdad ProvinceHasan Buzurg took control of Baghdad, proclaimed himself sultan, and founded the Jalayirid Sultanate, bringing Iraq's core lands under his rule.
1337–1340Mesopotamia · MesopotamiaThe Jalayirid regime gradually subdued internal opposition in Iraq and faced off against Persian rival states such as the Chobanids and the Kartids, becoming a major pole of the post-Ilkhanid era.

Sources

The History of the Jalayirids — H. H. Hamadani (1954)
Encyclopaedia Iranica: Jalayerids https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/jalayerids