Yakhan Begum ( fa, یاکهان بیگم) was a

Karkiya Karkiya or Karkisa was a Late Bronze Age region in western Anatolia known from references in Hittite texts, Hittite and Ancient Egyptian literature, Egyptian records. It is believed to refer to the classical era region of Caria or to a region where ...

princess, who was the daughter of the last Karkiya ruler

Khan Ahmad Khan Khan Ahmad Khan ( Gilaki/ fa, خان احمد خان), was the last king of the Karkiya dynasty in Gilan, ruling from 1538 to 1592. In 1591, the Safavid shah Shah Abbas (r. 1588–1629) asked Khan Ahmad Khan's daughter Yakhan Begum to marry h ...

(r. 1538–1592), and the

Safavid Safavid Iran or Safavid Persia (), also referred to as the Safavid Empire, '. was one of the greatest Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often conside ...

princess

Maryam Begum Maryam Begum ( fa, مریم بیگم) was a Safavid princess, who was a daughter of shah Tahmasp I Tahmasp I ( fa, طهماسب, translit=Ṭahmāsb or ; 22 February 1514 – 14 May 1576) was the second shah of Safavid Iran from 1524 to 1576. He ...

. In 1591, the Safavid prince

Mohammad Baqer Mirza Mohammad Baqer Mirza better known in the West as Safi Mirza (15 September 1587, Mashhad – 2 February 1614, Rasht) was the oldest son of king (shah) Abbas the Great (r. 1588-1629), and the crown prince of the Safavid dynasty during Abbas' reig ...

was engaged to Yakhan Begum, but in the end a marriage did not take place due to the opposition of her father. Mohammad Baqer's father

Shah Abbas I Abbas I ( fa, ; 27 January 157119 January 1629), commonly known as Abbas the Great (), was the 5th Safavid Shah (king) of Iran, and is generally considered one of the greatest rulers of Iranian history and the Safavid dynasty. He was the third so ...

(r. 1588–1629) then decided to marry Yakhan Begum in 1602, but she died in the same year.

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