Diyarbakir was the center of the major and minor Kurdish chiefdoms. However, other Kurdish emirates existed outside of Diyarbakir. The Ottomans gave the...

Metropolitan University's Research Repository Eppel, Michael (2018), "The Kurdish emirates", Routledge Handbook on the Kurds, Routledge Handbooks Online, pp. 35–47...

Soran Emirate (Kurdish: میرنشینی سۆران) was a medieval Kurdish emirate established before the conquest of Kurdistan by Ottoman Empire in 1514 and later...

The Islamic Emirate of Byara (Kurdish: میرنشینی ئیسلامیی بیارە) was a short-lived unrecognized Kurdish Islamic state located in the Halabja Governorate...

Hasankeyf Emirate (1232–1524, Kurdish: Mîrektiya Melîkan) was a Kurdish emirate centered around Hasankeyf and ruled by descendants of the Ayyubid dynasty...

of the Ottomans and Safavids where various Kurdish emirates came to existence. The founder of the emirate was Yusuf Bayg who received the title Gazi Qiran...

Emirate of Kilis (Kurdish: Mîrektiya Kilîsê) was a Kurdish emirate which ruled the Kilis and Afrin in Antioch regions up until the disintegration of the...

Emirate of Çemişgezek (Kurdish: Mîrektiya Melkîşî, 13th century–1663) was a hereditary and autonomous Kurdish emirate existing from the 13th century to...

Emırate of Suveydı or Suveydis was a Kurdish Emirate. that ruled over the Bingöl Province from the 14th century until 1864. While Kurds comprised the majority...

The Emirate of Hakkâri (Kurdish: Hekarî) was a Kurdish emirate centered around the city of Hakkâri, and to the west of Lake Urmia on the border with Iran...