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Şah İsmayıl was born on 17th of july 1487. He united turcomans from Azerbaijan and Anatolia. His mother tongue - Azerbaijani became official language during his rule. Turcomans were loyal to him and agreed with his ideas. (kind of like Messi and argentinians today) Many turcomans didnt like centralisation policy of Ottomans, they were nomadic and fond of freedom. They wanted a dominant role.

80% of his army was consisted of turcomans. Rest of them were georgians, kurds, tajiks and others.

Without him, Azerbaijan would be on of those unformed and forced-to-live-together nations.

His grandfather - Şeyx Cüneyd (Pir-i türk) was buried in Qusar, Azerbaijan. Uzun Həsən - his other grandfather is also turcoman leader.