Badinan
 
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Major cities of Badinan in what is now Northern Iraq |
Badinan (also Bahdinan) was a Kurdish principality that was roughly the size of today's Iraqi governorate of Dahuk and whose capital was Amediye .
The area lay in the north and northeast of the Mosul plain , between Great Zab and Tigris . In the north, Badinan bordered the principality of Botan in Şırnak and in the west and south on the principality of Soran .
Around 1200 a noble Kurd named Baha-ad-Din founded a new dynasty in Amediye. His name gave the principality its name in a modified form. He had migrated from the Schamdinan area, today's Şemdinli in today's Hakkari, to the area around Amediye. The princely family traces its ancestry back to the Abbasids . Amediye became the capital of the Badinan. Badinan was only one of several Kurdish principalities that were formally subordinate to the Ottomans , but were exempt from tax due to special regulations and were largely autonomous.
The ruler of the Soran Principality, Mir Mohammed, overran the Principality of Badinan in 1832 and took the city of Amediye. In 1842 Badinan's status as a principality was revoked and it was attached to the Vilayet Mosul . Great Eşirets (German: tribes) of the principality were the Mzuri and the Zibari. Former Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari belongs to this tribe. The medieval Kurdish chronicler Scherefhan names the Rikan, the Berwari, the Mahal, the Siyabravi, the Tayli, the Buhli, the Sindi and the Süleymani. Muslim and Yazidi Kurds, Christian Assyrians and Jews made up the population of the principality.
Badinan is still considered an area designation in Northern Iraq today; it includes the cities of Dohuk , Zaxo , Amediye, Akrê and Sinjar .
Furthermore, Badinan is the name for the local expression of Kurmanji , which is spoken in this region.
Web links
- Badinan . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica (English, including references)