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to the Turks ; the Karawar and the Zaza, on the contrary, are friendly
with the British. Lastly, mention must be made of the Alush, a group of
200 families, who have settled on the river Balikh, between ‘Ain-el-Arus
and Rakha; they are outcasts and refugees who live under the rule of a
Kurdish chief, but whose language is Arabic.
Note.
The account of these tribes and especially of the Ketkan and Barazi
Kurds written by Sir Mark Sykes differs from that given in this section.
He states that they are a branch of the Berizanli, who migrated at an
unknown period to the neighbourhood of Seruj. His list, in which the
Keytkan (Ketkan) are reckoned as a sub-division of the Berazieh (Barazi),
is as follows :—
Tribe.
Number of
families.
Name and number
of families in above
list.
Name in list of
Kaimmakam of
Seruj.
1. Keytkan ...
700
Ketkan
Ketkan.
2. Shaykhan
600
Sheikhtan
Sheikhan.
8. Okian ...
700
Okhian
4. Shadadan
700
Sheddad
5. Alididli
700
Aleddin... 800
Alai-ud-Din.
6. Ma'afnn
700
7. Zerwan
500
Zirwala
8. Pijan ...
800
Pijan ... 1,000
Pijan.
9. Karagetchan
500
10. Dinan ...
1,000
Dinazi ... 1,800
11. Mir
1 000
12. Didan ...
’300
Didan
18.
Khaldan Ann
El-Aun.
14.
Omerat
Omerat.
15.
Kortkan
16.
Asian
§ 2 .—The Milli Kurds.
The most important of the Kurdish tribes are those who inhabit the
mountainous country in the middle of Northern Kurdistan, between the
towns of Birijik, Severek, Diarbekr, Mardin, Veranshehr, and Urfah.
These are the Millit Kurds, who live on the slopes of the Qarajah Dagh ;
the most powerful tribes among their neighbours are the Karakechili and
Sheikhan Kurds, on the south-west side of the Milli Kurds, and, between
t Called by th® chief, Mahmud, in his own list, “ Melane Kebir.”