The Kurdish emirates, Kurdish chiefdoms or Kurdish principalities () 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.KurdishGlobe- Kurdish Nationalism in Mam u Zin of Ahmad-î Khânî -- (Part XII) The Kurdish principalities were almost always divided and entered into rivalries against each other. 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.
The eyalet of Diyarbakir was the center of the major and minor Kurdish chiefdoms. However, other Kurdish emirates existed outside of Diyarbakir. By Hakan Özoğlu
Policy during the Ottoman-Persian Wars 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.
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Major emirates
Ardalan Bahdinan Baban Bitlis Bohtan Bradost Donboli Eğil Genç Hakkari Emirate of Hasankeyf
Kilis Mahmudi Principality Mukriyan Palu Pazooka Soran Principality of Suleyman Tercil Daseni Shekak Milan (tribe) Koçgiri
Minor emirates
Abagay (Ezdikhan) Ağcakale Aghakis (Göllü, Tatvan District) Albak Arabgir Awraman
Bâne Bayezid Bargiri Belican Çaan Gedig Çeğni Çemişgezek Çermik Daratang Darna Dasini Derzini Diyadin Dulkıran Eruh Goran Görgil
Hançük Hemkerdan
Hûdî (Didan Tribe) Ispayird (Sürücüler, Hizan District) İspir Janpollat Kârkâr (Daldere, Gevaş district) Kızuçan Kurnê Kiğı Lesser Lur (Lur-i Kuchek) Mahidasht Mazgirt Mifariqın Mihrani (Mihrani Kalesi in Hazro District) Mücenkürd
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 Vassal and tributary states of the Ottoman Empire List of Kurdish dynasties and countries Ayyubids Shaddadids Islamic Emirate of Kurdistan
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By Evli̇ya Çelebi̇, Martin van Bruinessen, Hendrik Boeschoten