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Yezidis were subject to brutal persecution by Arabs, Persians, Turks and Sunni Kurds. Two of the most known early and major expeditions against the Yezidis took place in 1246, when the Yezidi leader, Sheikh Hassan ibn Adi was killed by Badr Ad-Din Lulu , and 1414, when a joint army of neighbouring Sunni Kurdish tribes ransacked Lalish.
Yazidism, [a] also known as Sharfadin, [b] is a monotheistic ethnic religion [c] which has roots in pre-Zoroastrian Iranian religion, directly derived from the Indo-Iranian tradition.
Adawiyya was led by Arabs, but the vast majority of Adawis were Kurmanji Kurds, with small minorities of Arabs, Turks, and Persians. The Kurds dominated Adawiyya and the other ethnicities assimilated over time. By the time that Adawiyya became Yazidism and stopped accepting religious converts, virtually all Adawis were Kurdish.
The Yazidids (Arabic: بنو يزيد, romanized: Bānū Yāzīd) or Mazyadids (after their ancestor Mazyad al-Shaybani) or Shaybanids (after Banu Shayban), were an Arab family what came to rule over the region of Shirvan (in Azerbaijan) in the mid 9th century.
After some Kurdish tribes became Islamized in the 10th century, they joined in the persecution of Yazidis in the Hakkari mountains. [3] [12] Due to their religion, Muslim Kurds persecuted and attacked the Yazidis with particular brutality.
ISIS attacks Sinjar after withdrawal of Kurdish forces. Thousands of Yezidis flee to Sinjar mountain but are trapped with no access to food and water. Many die. [163] 4 August 2014 At least 60 Yazidi men are killed by ISIS in Hardan village while women and children are forcefully taken as captives to Tel Afar. [163] 7 August 2014
The following is a list of Yazidi settlements in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Armenia, including both current and historical Yazidi settlements.Historically, Yazidis lived primarily in Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. [1]
The Roman-Persian frontier in the 4th to 7th centuries. The Iberian War, which had been provoked by the uprising of the Iberians against the Persians in 524/5, had been largely indecisive: the Persians swiftly crushed the revolt, but were unable to make any gains in Byzantine territory except for two forts, Scanda and Sarapanis, in Lazica.