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To Mesopotamia and Kurdistan in disguise

Chapter 21: APPENDIX KURDISH TRIBES
By Ely Banister Soane
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A traveler's journal recounts a journey from Constantinople across Mesopotamia and southern Kurdistan to Baghdad, blending itinerary and historical sketch. Traveling under a Persian guise to gain local access, the writer describes cities and ruins along the Euphrates and Tigris—Edessa, Amid, Mosul, Arbela, Kirkuk—and records encounters with Kurdish tribes, Jaf chiefs, Yazidis, and Chaldean communities. Chapters combine on-the-ground ethnographic observation, daily life and encampment scenes, maps and illustrations, and collected oral histories and correspondence that illuminate tribal organization and regional past. An appendix lists Kurdish tribes and a bibliography documents sources.

The following table includes the main tribes upon the Turkish and Persian frontier. Numbers 1 to 9 term themselves generally “Kurmanj,” “Kurdmang,” i.e., Kurds, while the rest use the designation “Kurd” to signify their race. Those using the first appellation are of the purest Kurd blood.

No. Name of Tribe. Sub-tribes. Situation of Country.
1 Haidaranlu Zilanlu, Hasananlu, Adamanlu, Sipkanlu, Jibranlu, Zirkanlu, Shadi, Milan, Mamanlu. The Armenian plateau, and up to the Persian frontier.
2 Shekak Persian frontier near Salmas.
3 Hakkari Oramar, Shamisdinan, Jelu, Herki, Zebari, Ruzhaki (an ancient clan of which the princes of Bitlis were members), Shernakli, Khizan, Barzan, Girdi, Bahdinan (from which the powerful religious families and Shaikhs came), Missuri, Bohtan, Hasankaifan, Nauchai, Jelali, Rawan, and many other small sections. Bitlis, the Great Zab valley, the Tiyari, Amadia, Jazira ibn Umar.
4 Mukri Sauj Bulaq and the district around, up to the Turkish frontier.
5 Pishdir Nuraddini and others. Upper Lesser Zab River valley.
6 Bilbas The Kandil Dagh in Central Kurdistan.
7 Rawanduz Rawanduz.
8 Shuan South of the lower Lesser Zab, N.E. of Kirkuk.
9 Baban Sulaimania.
10 Bana Bana.
11 Merivan Merivan.
12 Jaf Pushtamala, Amala, Jaf-i-Sartik, Tilan, Mikaili, Akhasuri, Changani, Rughzadi, Tarkhani, Bashaki, Kilali, Shatiri, Haruni, Nurwali, Kukui, Zardawi, Yazdan Bakhshi, Shaikh Ismaili, Sadani, Badakhi, Musai Tailaku. From Qizil Rubat along the west bank of the Sirwan River as far as Shahr-i-Zur, Panjwin.
13 Hamavand Qaradagh, near Sulaimania.
14 Sharafbaiani Haorin, on the south of the Sirwan River, in Persian territory.
15 Bajlan Jumur, Shirawand, Hajilar Gharibawand, Dandawand, and Qazanlu. Immediately south of the Sharafbaiani.
16 Aoram or Haoram Haoram-i-Ali Shah, Haoram-i-Ja’far Sultan. The Aoraman Mountain.
17 Salahi Kifri, Salahi district.
18 Guran Gahwara, Baziani, Nerzhi, Qalkhani, Buyani, Kalleh Zanjiri, Qadir Mir Waisi, Taishai, and other small sections. The western part of the province of Kermanshah.
19 Kalhur Shuan, Kuchimi, Charzrbari, Alawand, Khaledi, Shiani, Sia-Sia, Kazem Khani, Khamman, Kalajubi, Harunabadi, Baidaghbagi, Kerkah, Mansuri, Vermizyari, and others. The province of Kermanshah.
20 Sinjabi Near the Turkish frontier, in the Kermanshah province.