ENCYCLOPEDIA
Explore the topics of Kurdish history from A to Z; every entry is drawn from primary sources.
The War of the Ring was a war fought in 1514 between the Ottoman emperor Selim I (Yavuz) and the ruler of Safevi, Shah Ismail, and referred to in Ottoman source…
Çapakçur is an administrative unit located in the Diyarbekir region during the Ottoman period, heavily populated by Kurds (today's Bingöl region). Throughout history, sometimes independent…
Çemişgezek was an administrative unit (sancak/liva) located in the Diyarbekir region during the Ottoman period, governed by Kurdish emirs, and over time, its status as a kaza...
Çermik is an administrative unit located in the Diyarbekir region during the Ottoman period; in sources, it is sometimes referred to as a nahiye and sometimes as a kaza, alongside Amid (Diyarbekir), Mardin, Ruha, Siverek, E...
Çölemerik (Çölemerikiye; today's Hakkâri city center) is a mountainous region and settlement in the southeast of Eastern Anatolia, on the banks of the Büyük Zap river. Medieval Isl...