Kingdom of Kurdistan
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The Kingdom of Kurdistan was a short-lived and self-proclaimed Kurdish state declared in the city of Sulaymaniyah following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. It lasted from September 1921 until July
Mahmud Barzanji with his soldiers in Slemani
Mahmud Barzanji
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Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji, also known as Mahmud Hafid Zadeh was a Kurdish leader who led a series of Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq. He was sheikh of a Qadiriyah Sufi family of the
Kingdom of Kurdistan
…During the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Kurds attempted to establish an independent state. Mahmud Barzanji, the Shaykh of the Qadiriyyah order of Sufis, the most influential personality in Southern Kurdistan, was appointed governor of the former sanjak of…
Barzanji in 1919
Mahmud Barzanji
Mahmud Barzanji along with his nephew and son
Mahmud Barzanji, 1921