Principality of Bitlis | |||||||||
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1182–1847 | |||||||||
Status |
(1655-1847) | ||||||||
Capital | Bitlis | ||||||||
Common languages | Persian (ruling class/elite, bureaucracy, chancery, literary, Sufis, mercantile, scholarly, madrasas, building inscriptions, gravestone inscriptions)[1] | ||||||||
Government | Principality | ||||||||
Khan/Hakim | |||||||||
• 1578-1597 | Sharaf al-Din Bitlisi | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1182 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1847 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Bitlis Province |
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The Principality of Bitlis, also known as the Bitlis Khanate,[2] and the Bitlis Emirate (1182–1847), was a Persianate[3] Kurdish principality centered at Bitlis. It originated from the Rojaki (or Rozagi) tribal confederation.
Vural
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).In fact, Bidlis was part of the vast "Persianate world" or, as Green reconceptualizes, "Persographia," which stretched from the Balkans to Central Asia and from the Indian subcontinent to the Caucasus, the area where Persian language, culture, literature, art, and identity dominated strongly.
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