Kurdish emirates
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The Kurdish emirates, Kurdish chiefdoms or Kurdish principalities (Sorani Kurdish: میرنشینە کوردییەکان) were various semi-independent entities which existed during the 16th to 19th centuries during the state of continuous warfare between the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran.[1] The Kurdish principalities were almost always divided and entered into rivalries against each other.[1] The demarcation of borders between the Safavid Shah Safi and the Ottoman caliph Sultan Murad IV in 1639 effectively divided Kurdistan between the two empires.[1]
The eyalet of Diyarbakir was the center of the major and minor Kurdish chiefdoms. However, other Kurdish emirates existed outside of Diyarbakir.[2][3]
Policy during the Ottoman-Persian Wars
[edit | edit source]The Ottomans gave the Kurds self-rule during the Ottoman-Persian wars, to ensure that the Kurds remain on the Ottoman side. After the Treaty of Erzurum in 1823 the Persian threat was reduced & the Ottomans brought the Kurdish chiefdoms under direct control.[4]
List
[edit | edit source]Major emirates
[edit | edit source]Minor emirates
[edit | edit source]- Abagay (between Muradiye and Doğubayazıt)[9]
- Ağcakale
- Aghakis (Göllü, Tatvan District)
- Albak
- Arabgir
- Awraman
- Principality of Atak
- Bâne
- Bayezid
- Bargiri
- Belican
- Çaan Gedig
- Çeğni
- Çemişgezek
- Çermik
- Daratang
- Darna
- Dasini
- Derzini
- Diyadin
- Dulkıran
- Eruh
- Goran
- Görgil
- Principality of Gürdükan
- Hançük
- Hemkerdan
- Emirate of Hezo
- Hûdî (Didan Tribe)
- Ispayird (Sürücüler, Hizan District)
- İspir
- Janpollat
- Kârkâr (Daldere, Gevaş district)
- Kızuçan[10]
- Kurnê
- Kiğı
- Lesser Lur (Lur-i Kuchek)
- Mahidasht
- Mazgirt
- Mifariqın
- Mihrani (Mihrani Kalesi in Hazro District)
- Mücenkürd
- Principality of Müks
- Pasin
- Pertek
- Palangan
- Pünyanişi (Somay)
- Qulp
- Sağman
- Sasun
- Siirt
- Sindi
- Siyah Mansûr
- Somay
- Suveydi (Çapakçur)
- Şemdinan (Istuni, Sitûnê village, Mergasor District)
- Şirvan (Kufra)
- Şıtak
- Terza
- Uşni
- Zakho
- Zangana
- Zeriki (Sarıca, Şemdinli District)
- Zerza (Zerzan tribe)
- Zirqan (Zeyrek)
See also
[edit | edit source]- Vassal and tributary states of the Ottoman Empire
- List of Kurdish dynasties and countries
- Ayyubids
- Shaddadids
- Islamic Emirate of Kurdistan
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c KurdishGlobe- Kurdish Nationalism in Mam u Zin of Ahmad-î Khânî -- (Part XII) Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kurdish notables and the Ottoman state: evolving identities, competing ..., p. 49, at Google Books By Hakan Özoğlu
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