أسرة كيا

Kar-Kiya dynasty
1370s–1592
Map of the political situation in northern Iran in 1425
العاصمة	Lahijan
اللغات المشتركة	Gilaki
الدين	Zaydi Shia Islam
الحكومة	Monarchy
الحقبة التاريخية	Post-classical history
• تأسست	1370s
• Safavid conquest	1592
تلاها Safavid Iran

The Kar-Kiya dynasty, also known as the Kiya'ids, was a local Zaydi dynasty which mainly ruled over Biya-pish (eastern Gilan) from the 1370s to 1592.

The Kar-Kiya dynasty helped Shah Ismail I to establish Safavid Iran and later became one of its vassal states. The Safavid shah, Abbas I put an end to the Kar-Kiya dynasty and the neighbouring Eshaqvand Dynasty by dispatching an army to Gilan in 1592.

 List of Kar-Kiyid rulers

Below is a complete list of the rulers of the Kar-Kiya dynasty:

• Sayyed Ali Kiya (r. 1370s–1389)
• Hady Kiya (r. 1389–1394)
• Amir Sayyed Mohammad (r. 1394–1430)
• Sayyed Razi Kiya (r. 1396–1426)
• Sayyed Hosayn Kiya (r. 1426–1430)
• Sayyed Naser Kiya (r. 1430–1448)
• Soltan-Mohammad Kiya (r. 1448–1478)
• Soltan-Ali Mirza (r. 1478–1504/05)
• Soltan-Hasan (r. 1504/05–1506)
• Soltan-Ahmad Khan (r. 1506–1534)
• Soltan-Kiya Ali (r. 1534–1534/5)
• Soltan-Hasan Kiya (r. 1534/5–1538)
• Khan Ahmad Khan (r. 1538–1592)

 Monuments

المقالة الرئيسية: Chahar Padshahan

Sayyed Ali Kiya, Sayyed Hady Kiya and Sayyed Razi Kiya are buried in the historic Chahar Padshahan mausoleum located in Lahijan. The site also entombs one of their ancestors, Sayyed Kar-Kiya, who was killed in 1243 or 1244.

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