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Kepek Khatun

Type Figure Region Ilkhanate Time c. 1300–1327 Also known as Daughter of Ghazan

Daughter of the former Ilkhan Ghazan, a core female politician of the early 14th-century court;…

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  1. c. 1319–1320Soltaniyeh · Zanjan ProvinceAs daughter of the former Ilkhan Ghazan she married into Abu Sa'id's harem, gaining a prominent position in the young Ilkhan's court through her royal bloodline, both cooperating and competing with Chupan's faction.
  2. 1321–1327Tabriz · East Azerbaijan ProvinceIn the 1320s she participated in appointments and factional alliances at the Tabriz and Soltaniyeh courts; after Chupan's execution in 1327 she lost her political backing and died the same year, marking the end of the Ilkhanate's harem–powerful minister co-governance pattern.

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