Gurgan

Gurgan was the Caspian power base of Togha Temür, a descendant of Genghis Khan's brother Qasar. After Abu Sa'id's death in 1335, eastern Iranian princes accepted him as Ilkhan; in 1337 he marched west and occupied Soltaniyeh.

Driven back by the Jalayirids and Chobanids, Togha Temür ruled Gurgan, Mazandaran and much of Khurasan after 1344. In 1353 the Sarbadar leader Yahya Karawi murdered him in his camp near Astarabad. His son Luqman-Padishah was restored there as Timur's vassal in 1384, and his descendants held the town into the early fifteenth century.