Sulayman Beg Bijan was a
Turkoman military officer from the Bijan clan, who served the
Aq Qoyunlu
The Aq Qoyunlu ( az, Ağqoyunlular , ) was a culturally Persianate,Kaushik Roy, ''Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400–1750'', (Bloomsbury, 2014), 38; "Post-Mongol Persia and Iraq were ruled by two tribal confederations: Akkoyunlu (W ...
. He was captured and executed in
Diyar Bakr
Diyar Bakr ( ar, دِيَارُ بَكرٍ, Diyār Bakr, abode of Bakr) is the medieval Arabic name of the northernmost of the three provinces of the Jazira ( Upper Mesopotamia), the other two being Diyar Mudar and Diyar Rabi'a. According to ...
in 1492 by the Aq Qoyunlu prince Nur Ali Bayandur in vengeance for the murder of his uncle Qurkhmas.
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* {{cite book , title=The Aqquyunlu: Clan, Confederation, Empire (Revised and Expanded Edition) , year=1999 , publisher=University of Utah Press , editor-last= , last=Woods, first=John E. , authorlink=John E. Woods (historian) , chapter= , isbn=978-0874805659 , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eh0XAQAAIAAJ&dq
Generals of the Aq Qoyunlu
15th-century births
1492 deaths