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The Kurdish ethnonationalist movement that emerged following World War I and end of the Ottoman empire was largely reactionary to the changes taking place in mainstream Turkey, primarily radical secularization which the strongly Muslim Kurds abhorred, centralization of authority which threatened the power of local chieftains and Kurdish ...
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This is a list of Kurdish dynasties, countries and autonomous territories. The Kurds are an Iranian people without their own nation state, they inhabit a geo-cultural region known as "Kurdistan" which lies in east Turkey, north Syria, north Iraq and west Iran. (For more information see Origin of the Kurds.) [1] [2]
Elî Teremaxî (17th century or 18th century) Haydar Khan Zanganeh (18th century) Ibrahim Pasha al-Dalati (18th century) Nalî (1800–1856) Salim (1800–1866) Bedir Khan Beg (1803–1869) Mastoureh Ardalan (1805–1848) Mawlawi Tawagozi (1806–1882/3) Kurdî (1806/12–1850) Jafar Qoli Khan Donboli (d. 1814) Haji Qadir Koyi (1817–1897)
16th-century portrayal of the Safavid ruler Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576), who made numerous attempts to integrate the Kurds into his kingdom. In 1508, the local rulers of Kurdistan acknowledged the suzerainty of the Safavids. [6] Shah Tahmasp I (r. 1524–1576) made numerous attempts to
Baban (Kurdish: بابان) [3] was a Kurdish principality existing from the 16th century to 1850, centered on Sulaymaniyah. The Baban Principality played an active role in the Ottoman - Safavid conflict and gave significant military support to the Ottomans. [ 4 ]
Sharafkhan Bidlisi in the 16th century states that there are four division of Kurds: Kurmanj, Lur, Kalhor, and Guran, each of which speak a different dialect or language variation. Paul (2008) notes that the 16th-century usage of the term Kurd as recorded by Bidlisi, regardless of linguistic grouping, might still reflect an incipient ...
The Kurdish emirates, Kurdish chiefdoms or Kurdish principalities (Sorani Kurdish: میرنشینە کوردیەکان) were several 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]