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Kingdoms of Kurdistan

Fall of the Baban Emirate and its Position in Kurdistan

The Ardalan Emirate, the Oldest Kurdish Sovereign

Kurdish Donboli Emirs During Qajar Authority

Donboli Emirs During the Reign of Hawshar and Zandi Dynasties

The Authority of Kurdish Donboli Emirs During the Safavid Reign

Dahdari Bridge in Amed, North part of Kurdistan

According to some historians, it was built in 515 during the Roman Empire, and the Umayyads destroyed it in 742/743, but what is known for sure is it was rebuilt in 1065-1067 during the Kurdish kingdom of Marwan. The bridge was rebuilt by Yusuf son of Obaid Sinjari.

Halo Khan Castle in Marivan

This castle later became known as Marivan Castle and was the main center of the government of the Babans and Ardalans for three centuries. Imam Mountain dominates the plain and the present city of Marivan.

Kuramawa and Falakulaflak Castle

In the present place of Khuramawa and during the Elamese period, there was a city called Khaydalu over which the city of Shapurkhast was built on the order of Shapur II on its ruins. The ancient monuments show that Khuramawa was one of the most important cities of the Sassanid era and the castle of Falakulaflak is the symbol of this city.

The History of the Wakil Family in the Ardalan Region

The Anazids, a Kurdish Power from Sharazur to Kermashan

The Rule of the Emirate of a Hazar Aspian

According to the historian Hamdallah Mustawfi, the origin of the great Atabaks of Lorestan goes back to the Kurds living in Sham (Syria). Ghaffari, another historian who has worked on the great Atabaks of Lorestan, similarly traces their ancestry back to Syrian Kurdistan and believes they were of the blood of the legendary Iranian king Kay Khosrow.

Qishlay Koya, a Forgotten Monument and a Great Symbol

This castle should have become a place to manifest Koya’s ancient identity and to be made into a cultural museum since there is the tomb of a great Kurdish poet who wrote the national anthem of “Ay Raqib”, “Younes Rauof” known as “Dildar” on one side of this castle and on the other side there is the cannon of “Wasta Rajab”.

"Bazi Kurd", Founder of the Power of the "Marwans"

In his travelogue, Nasir Khasrow mentioned that the city of Amed under the rule of the Marwans was very different from other cities in Arab, Persian, Indian, and Turkish countries and believed none of those cities were like Amed. Nasir Khasrow also pointed out the existence of mosques and churches in the city, which at that time, in the turmoil of Islamic and Christian tensions, represented the free and absolute thought of the rule of Nasruddawla Marwani and the Kurds of Amed.

Karim Khan Zand and the Zand Kingdom

The Laks governing in Iran

Mir Badir Khan, Kurdistan King

Badir Khan was the first Kurdish lord who ruled over “Urmia” to “Newan Choman”.

Dim Dim Castle and Kurds Uprising

Dim Dim castle issue is the identity of the Kurdish war against the Savagery of the Safavid in order to preserve the honor and greatness of national identity and protect the realms of the land named Kurdistan.

The Shaddadids and the Beginning of Kurdish Rule in the Caucasus

The Shaddadids were a Kurdish dynasty that ruled the Arran region and part of Armenia from the 4th to the 6th centuries AH (951 to 1199 AD). Arran is the name of a part of the Caucasus which its borders have changed throughout history. Geography scientists have called it Albania, Ariana, Rani, and Olvan, too.
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