The Turco-Mongol Invasions and the Lords of Armenia in the 13 ...

north to Khan Jani-3eg of the Golden Horde, beseeching
him to invade Azarbaijan to "liberate" them. Thus in
1357 the Caucasus once more was overrun by invasion from
the north. Jani-Beg put an end to the Chobanids that
year, set up a new governor, and departed .
Now the Jalayirids became the new contenders for
the Il-£han legacy. In 1358 Jalayirids fought the soldiers
of Jani-Beg in Tabriz, Naxijewan and Qarabagh, expelling
them and seizing much of the Chobanids' holdings in
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Armenia and Iran . However the Jalayirid state was nothing
but an ever-shifting network of uneasy alliances among
nomadic bands. Centrifugal pressures split it into
numerous parts around 1374, after which nomadic tribes
of Mongols, Turkmans and Kurds warred against one another
and against the sedentary Armenian population .
From the standpoint of destructiveness, two Turkmen
groups played a major role in Armenia in the late 14th
century. One was the Qara Qoyunlu ("Black Sheep") Turkmens
who had established themselves in the central and southern
Armenian districts jn the late 13th century. Throughout the
SAP IV pp. 19-20; Spuler pp. 40-41, 54-55; SA p. 169;
14CC #519 P. 433.
HAP IV p. 20.
HAP IV p. 21; SA p. 170.
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