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Emirate of Hakkari

A Kurdish emirate in the high mountains west of Lake Urmia on the Ottoman-Iranian border, ruling a mixed Kurdish and Assyrian Christian population; absorbed by the Ottomans in 1845 amid the Bedirhan campaigns.

Ended in 1845 when internal disputes brought it briefly under the neighbouring Botan emirate of Bedir Khan Beg; both were then absorbed into direct Ottoman rule after the Tanzimat reforms.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 4 border frames for Emirate of Hakkari — the shape you scrub through changes in 1500 · 1708 · 1737 · 1751.

Further reading

• The Kurdish National Movement Wadie Jwaideh · 1960

  Covers the Hakkari emirate, its Assyrian subjects, and the Bedirhan/Ottoman suppression.

• Agha, Shaikh and State Martin van Bruinessen · 1978

  Analyses Hakkari among the highland Kurdish emirates.

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Hakkari dynasty' (Q1396642), lead verified via MediaWiki API — Kurdish emirate at Hakkari, sanity-checked.
• Wikidata Q1396642 (P571 1400 / P576 1900) — index cross-check; the effective end is 1845 per Wikipedia.
• Wadie Jwaideh, 'The Kurdish National Movement' (1960) — existence and scope verified via the Open Library catalog (non-Wikipedia institutional source); title/subject matches the load-bearing dates. Full-text page-quote not extracted (lending-restricted / no open OCR).