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Jalairid Sultanate

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Government
  
Monarchy

Disestablished
  
1432

Today part of
  
Iran  Iraq

Date dissolved
  
1432

Established
  
1335

Preceded by
  
Succeeded by

Founded
  
1335

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Languages
  
Persian Arabic(diplomatic) Mongolian(government)

Capitals
  
Baghdad (Till 1358 and 1388-1411), Tabriz (1358–1388), Basra (1411–1432)

The Jalairids were a Mongol Jalayir dynasty which ruled over Iraq and western Persia after the breakup of the Mongol khanate of Persia in the 1330s. The Jalairid sultanate lasted about fifty years, until disrupted by Timur's conquests and the revolts of the Kara Koyunlu ("Black Sheep") Turkmen. After Timur's death in 1405, there was a brief attempt to re-establish the sultanate in southern Iraq and Khuzistan. The Jalairids were finally eliminated by the Kara Koyunlu in 1432.

Government

The Jalairid administration and chancellery was modeled after Ilkhanate protocols, with documents in Persian and Mongolian. Their diplomatic correspondence also copied the Ilkhanate's, using a red ink square seal with Islamic phrases in Arabic.

References

Jalairid Sultanate Wikipedia


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