Yakhan Begum

Yakhan Begum (Persian: یاکهان بیگم‎‎) was a Kia'i princess, who was the daughter of the last Kia'i ruler Khan Ahmad Khan (r. 1538-1592), and the Safavid princess Maryam Begum. In 1591, the Safavid prince Mohammad Baqer Mirza was engaged to Yakhan Begum, but in the end a marriage did not take place due to the opposal of her father. Mohammad Baqer's father Shah Abbas I (r. 1588–1629) himself later married Yakhan Begum in 1602, but she died in the same year.

Sources

Newman, Andrew J. (2008). Safavid Iran: Rebirth of a Persian Empire. I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–281. ISBN 9780857716613.
Kasheff, Manouchehr (2001). "GĪLĀN v. History under the Safavids". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. X, Fasc. 6. pp. 635–642.

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