ENCYCLOPEDIA
Explore the topics of Kurdish history from A to Z; every entry is drawn from primary sources.
The Abbasids (749-1258) are an Islamic caliphate dynasty centered in Baghdad. Since a large part of the Islamic period of Kurdish history took place during the time of this dynasty, sources Kurdish...
Adiabene is a historical region and kingdom located in northern Mesopotamia, east of the Tigris, defined in ancient sources with Erbil as its center. Kurdish...
Adilcevaz is a district located around Lake Van and recorded as a settlement unit within the administrative structure of the region during the Ottoman period. The dense population of Kurds...
Agathangelos is the author of the first Armenian History, attributed to an anonymous writer known by the epithet "good messenger" and written in Armenian. The work, early Sasanian...
Ahlat (Hilât in sources) is a historical city located on the northwestern shore of Lake Van. In early Islamic period geography and history sources, yet "Kurdistan"...
Akkoyunlu is a Turkmen dynasty that was influential in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia and the surrounding geography during the late Middle Ages and early modern period. Its name, the Turkmen t...
Akre (Akra) is a settlement of Kurds (Volume 4, s. 119; Volume 4, p. 264). ## Administrative Structure Akre is one of the accidents of the Ottoman administrativ…
Ali Emirî (Ali Emiri Efendi) is a scholar, publisher and collector known for the classification of documents mentioned by his own name in the Ottoman archive, t…
Ammianus Marcellinus is a historian who lived in the fourth century AD and personally witnessed Rome's campaigns against the Sasanian Empire. His work, which...
Anatolia, located in western Asia, has been the domain of various empires throughout history, from antiquity to the Ottoman period, and where Kurds have historically spread...
The Annazids were a Kurdish dynasty that ruled in the Cibal region of western Iran between 381-511/990-1171. The name of the dynasty appears in different forms in sources...
Armenia is a historical region located in Upper Mesopotamia and eastern Anatolia, intertwined with the geography of Kurdish history in ancient and late antique sources, and...
The Arthurian dynasty is a dynastal dynastي that existed in Upper Mesopotamia around Diyarbakir (Amid), Mardin and Hasankeyf. The region is mentioned in the his…
Arzanene (Arzonoyo; also referred to as Arzenene/Arzun in ancient sources) is a historical region located in the Upper Tigris basin during Late Antiquity, placed around present-day Batman and its vicinity...
Assyria (Assyrians, Assyrians) ruled in northern Mesopotamia, especially in the Tigris valley and around Nineveh, and is mentioned in ancient and later sources as part of Kurdish geography...
Azerbaijan is frequently mentioned in ancient and Islamic period sources of Kurdish history to define the eastern belt of the geography inhabited by Kurds and Kurdish settlements...