Çox Qoyunlu

# ÇOXLUQOYUNLULAR

## Overview

Çoxluqoyunlular, or Çox Qoyunlu, is a kingdom situated in Eastern Anatolia. The Sufi Azeri sultanate rules over portions of Anatolia and Georgia, stretching from Elazig to Dedoplistskaro, with its capital in Erzurum. Çox Qoyunlu is an absolute monarchy under the recently-established House Mustafa-Batur, of whom rule benevolently over a loose association of Turks, Kurds, and several Iranian ethnic groups which escaped from political conflict following the collapse of civilization, and flooding of coastal regions.

Since the death of Sultan Ozel I, Çox Qoyunlu has prioritized the needs of the elite, particularly those in or close to House Mustafa-Batur and the Mevlevi order, with a harsh set of ethnic caste laws which prevent the economic or social progression of many non-Turkic groups within the nation. Due to this minority rule by the Azeri monarchy and bureaucratic ecclesiatical government under them, the nation finds itself in constant internal ethnic struggle, though unrest is curbed by extensive religious conversion campaigns and silencing of opposition through controlled press and movement. This being said, however, the monarchy has demilitarized extensively since the death of the first sultan, embracing cultural, spiritual and technological development within the elite of the nation, while the unwashed masses remain unenlightened.

**Capital:** Erzurum

**Largest City:** Tbilisi

**Government:** Absolute monarchy

**Royal Family:** Mustafa-Batur

**Sultan:** Ozel Mustafa-Batur II

**Vizier:** Yunus Türkoğlu

**Legislature:** Kengačali

**Language(s):** Azerbaijani, Persian, Turkish, Arabic

**Religion(s):** Sufi Islam, Sunni Islam, Shia Islam

**Çelebi:** Kerem Kurt Çelebi

**Official** Order: Mevlevi

## Etymology

Çoxluqoyunlular, meaning Many (Çox) Sheep (Qoyunlu), is inspired by the Medieval Bayandur tribe Aq Qoyunlu (White Sheep). The replacement of ‘White’ with ‘Many’ was proclaimed by Sultan Ozel I to be a representation of the variety of ethnic groups that make up the kingdom, particularly the Iranian migrant base who sought refuge in Erzurum after the flood.

## History

### Six Vilayets Secession (1919)

Following the nominal collapse of Ottoman control over Anatolia and Arabia, collective forces of Young Turks and CUP travel to Erzurum to establish a joint ruling council of Turkish peoples within the Six Vilayets, where the Armenian Genocide remained in full effort because of the CUP’s efforts. While initially the succession was seen as nothing more from the remaining Ottoman officials as an unlawful seizure of power against House Osman, which would be easily tamed by the Ottoman Army, the large amount of Turkish nationalists relocating to Erzurum and Elazig by orders of the Young Turks began to prove frightening to the royal ministers, eventually leading to the full ousting of Ottoman government from both cities. Slowly, a new Turkish state began to spring from the mold of a new, faceless administration of Young Turks, where nationalist sentiment remained only in the hearts of the elite few while the common masses continued to endure through kleptocratic policy and lack of government accountability.