Badinan Emirate

Badinan or Bahdinan,(1376-1843) was one of the more powerful and enduring Kurdish principalities. It was founded by "Baha-al-Din" originally from "Şemzînan" area in Hakkari in sometime between 13th or 14th century CE. The capital of this emirate was Amedi for a long time.

It was centered in the town of "Amadiya" in the present-day Dahuk province in Iraqi Kurdistan. The principality also included "Akra" to the east and Zakho to the west. The principality reached its peak during the reign of "Bahram Pasha the Great"(re.1726-1767).

Threatened by the expansionist and centralizing efforts of the Ottoman and Safavid empires, Bahdinan princes were drawn into prolonged confrontations with these two rival powers. The Bahdinan rulers, "Esamil Pasha" and "Mohammad Said Pasha" were deposed by the emir of the neighboring "Soran" principality in 1832. However, their rule was restored after the Ottomans defeated "Soran" in 1834. Although the Soran influence lasted only for a few years, the Bahdinan principality never fully recovered. Pursuing their centralization policy, the Ottomans overthrew the Bahdinan principality in 1843 (or 1838) and incorporated it in the Sandjak of Mosul.

References

* [http://www.iranica.com/articles/search/searchpdf.isc?ReqStrPDFPath=/home1/iranica/articles/v3_articles/bahdinan&OptStrLogFile=/home/iranica/public_html/logs/pdfdownload.html Badinan] , Encyclopaedia Iranica, p.485, By Amir Hassanpour.
* [http://www.encislam.brill.nl/data/EncIslam/S4/SIM-1044.html Bahdīnān ] , The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Brill Academic Publishers.

ee also

* Bahdini