List of Kurdish empires and principalities
Kurdish principalities in the middle of the 19th century according to Mehrdad Izady
The list of Kurdish empires and principalities includes independent Kurdish empires in alphabetical order.
Rich
- Annazids
- Ayyubids 1171 to 1252
- Hasanwayhiden
- Kingdom of Kurdistan 1922–1924
- Marwanids
- Media (empire in antiquity from which the Kurds claim to descend)
Independent principalities
- Ake
- Ablax
- Ardalan
- Baban
- Badinan
- Beyazid
- Bitlis
- Offered
- Dilmakan
- Dozhik
- Hakkari
- Jelali
- Khalidi
- Milan
- Rawadids
- Shaddadids
- Soran
- Tasini
Individual evidence
- ^ C. Toumanoff , Introduction to Christian Caucasian History II: Status and Dynasties of the Formative Period, Traditio, Vol. XVII, pp. 1-107, 1961, Fordham University Press, New York. (see p.49)