Note 13 — Chapter XVI · AKHLAT

Layard (op. cit. p. 26) mentions a local tradition that all these tombs were built by Sultans of the Ak-Kuyunli (White Sheep) and Kara-Kuyunli (Black Sheep) Turkomans. The inscriptions show that this cannot be the case. The Venetian traveller Barbaro, who visited the country during the first half of the fifteenth century, found it in the possession of the horde of the Black Sheep. They were driven out by the rival horde of the White Sheep under Uzun Hasan (1466–1478).

Layard speaks of Bayindar as a known sultan of the White Sheep horde, I know not upon what authority. ↑