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'Kurdistan and the Kurds' [31v] (62/122)
The record is made up of 1 file (59 folios). It was created in 1919?. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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60
Tribe.
dumber of
families.
Locality.
Remarks.
1. Qavvatan
300
In the Boh tan
district.
Sedentary.
2. Haweri ...j
300
Near Zakho
Yezidi.
3. Sindi
1,500
[E. of Jezirat-ibn-
4 Omar]
Sedentary; mostly
Moslems, some
Nestorians.
4. Goyan
1,400
[N.E. of Jezirat-ibn-
‘Omar]
#
Sedentary and semi-
nomadic; large and
powerful tribe; noted
for valour and inde
pendence. Some
Zaza in this branch.
In 1899 they defeated
the Mi ran and killed
theirc hief, Mustafa
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
.
5. Shernakli
600
Near Shernakh
Sedentary ; section of
the Goyan.
6. Sheveli ::
(?)
[S. of Lake Van] ...
Also found near Iskilip.
7. Makeri *
1,200
One section at
Nordous, other at
Koshab.
Sedentary; said to have
migrated from Persia
about 1850.
8. Shefikti
1,200
[Near frontier be
tween Lakes Van
and Urmiyah]
Sedentary.
9. Khani
180
Near Koshab
Sedentary.
10. Pinianishlit ...
1,200
[Between Amadia
and the frontier
opposite Lake
Urmiyah]
Head of a large confed
eration of tribes in
this district.
11. Pinianishli
500
[N. of Nirva]
Off-shoot of preceding
tribe; some families
Yezidi, others Christ
ians.
12. Berwari
600
[E. of Jezirat-ibn-
‘Omar]
Sedentary,
* These three tribes stand in some relation to the Shekak, probably in that of
members of an ancient political confederation rather than of kin.
t The tribes in the confederation of the Pinianishli are the Zeydan, Barkoshan,
Kinarberosh, Suratawan, Billijan, Jelli, Gewiji, Shevilan, and Musanan.
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The file consists of a publication concerning Kurdistan and the Kurds. Produced and published by the General Staff, India, and printed in Mount Carmel, Palestine. It provides an edited collection of information based on the reports of military and political officers Captain C F Woolley, and Major Edward Noel (dated c 1919), and a paper written by Sir Mark Sykes in 1908.
It is divided into the following sections:
- Kurdistan and the Kurds - including boundaries, topography, and its inhabitants;
- the Kurdish tribes - including their locality, rough numbers, character, prominent families, and allegiances;
- Kurdish tribes outside Kurdistan - between Erzingan [Erzincan] and Sivas and in the neighbourhood of Marash [Kahramanmaraş], in Anatolia Peninsula that forms most of modern-day Turkey. , and in Syria;
- the Kurdish Movement for independence - history, origins, and causes;
- additions and corrections.
Also includes one map on folio 61: 'KURDISTAN AND THE KURDISH TRIBES'.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (59 folios)
- Arrangement
The file consists of a single publication. A contents page is at the front of the volume (f 2).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio, with 61, which is a folded map attached to the outside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Kurdistan and the Kurds'
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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