Kājavand
The Kājavand (also: Ḵvājavand ) are a Kurdish tribe that is native to the Iranian province of Māzandarān on the Caspian Sea . The tribe is said to have immigrated from Bijar (Garrūs) and Kordestān during the short-lived reign of the Afsharids under Nadir Shah .
During the reign of Karīm Khān Zand parts of the tribe are said to have returned to the ancestral areas through the escort of Āghā Muhammad Khān Kādschār . Various clans of the Siyāhserāni , Šarafvand and Šāhsavand live in the area of Kojur ( Persian بخش کجور), southeast of Nouschahr ; others, like the Garrusi , Kordestāni southwest of it. Kakavand are also said to have lived in Ramsar in the mid-19th century . Hardly 100 of the families are said to have remained Sunni , the rest converted to Shia , unless they confided in the Ahl-e Haqq movement .
The Kakavand were obliged to pay taxes to Gorgan (Astarābād) to mobilize against the Turkmens . However, because the Kakavand were targeted against the Russians by Abbas Mirza at the beginning of the 19th century , they were able to achieve their own rank. In 1808 they made a counter-attack in the Naḵčevān neighborhood . Allegedly, they beat the Russians in a glorious manner.
Because Prime Minister Mohammad Vali Khan had appropriated tracts of land from the Kakavand, they turned to the royalists during the Constitutional Revolution between 1906 and 1909.
Web links
- Pierre Oberling: Kvajavand . In: Ehsan Yarshater (ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica . Volume 15 (English, including references)
Individual evidence
- ↑ LS Fortescue: Military Report on Tehran and Adjacent Provinces of North-Western Persia. Calcutta 1922.
- ^ Hyacinth Louis Rabino : A Journey in Mazanderan (from Rasht to Sari). In: Geographical Journal 42, 1913, pp. 435-454.
- ↑ Harford Jones Brydges: The Dynasty of the Kajars. London 1833.