The Kar-Kiya dynasty, also known as the Kiya'ids, was a local dynasty which mainly ruled over Biya-pish (eastern
Gilan) from the 1370s to 1592. They claimed
Sasanian
The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred to by historians as the Neo-Persian Empire, was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th centuries AD. Named ...
ancestry as well.
Lahijan
Lahijan ( fa, لاهیجان, Lāhijān, also known as, Lāyjon in Gilaki) is a city near the Caspian Sea and the capital of Lahijan County, Gilan Province, Iran. According to the 2016 census, its population was 167,544 in 58,378 families.
La ...
was the dynasty's capital.
The Kar-Kiya dynasty helped
Shah
Shah (; fa, شاه, , ) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Iranian monarchies.Yarshater, EhsaPersia or Iran, Persian or Farsi, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII no. 1 (1989) It was also used by a variety of ...
Ismail I
Ismail I ( fa, اسماعیل, Esmāʿīl, ; July 17, 1487 – May 23, 1524), also known as Shah Ismail (), was the founder of the Safavid dynasty of Safavid Iran, Iran, ruling as its King of Kings (''Shahanshah'') from 1501 to 1524. His re ...
to establish the
Safavid Empire and later became a vassal state of the empire. The Safavid shah,
Abbas I put an end to the Kiya'id dynasty by dispatching an army to Gilan in 1592.
Kar-Kiya rulers
* Ali Kiya (1370s–1389)
* Hady Kiya (1389–1394)
* Amir Sayyed Mohammad (1394–1430)
* Sayyed Naser Kiya (1430–1448)
* Soltan-Mohammad Kiya (1448–1478)
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Soltan-Ali Mirza (1478–1504/05)
* Soltan-Hasan (1504/05–1506)
* Soltan-Ahmad Khan (1506–1534)
* Soltan-Kiya Ali (1534–1534/5)
* Soltan-Hasan Kiya (1534/5–1538)
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Khan Ahmad Khan
Khan Ahmad Khan ( Gilaki/ fa, خان احمد خان), was the last king of the Karkiya dynasty in Gilan, ruling from 1538 to 1592. In 1591, the Safavid shah Shah Abbas (r. 1588–1629) asked Khan Ahmad Khan's daughter Yakhan Begum to marry h ...
(1538–1592)
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* {{Encyclopaedia Islamica , last1 = Sajjadi , first1 = Sadeq , last2 = Melvin-Koushki , first2 = Matthew , title = The Amīr Kiyāʾids of Gīlān , year = 2008 , url = https://doi.org/10.1163/1875-9831_isla_COM_0273
Shia dynasties
Iranian Muslim dynasties
15th century in Iran
16th century in Iran
History of Gilan
History of Talysh
Zaydis