Ezdikhan on old maps
Ezdikhan (lit. "house of Yazidis") once meant" the country " in which the Yazidis lived. These were the Yazidi settlement territories that are now part of modern-day Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and Iran.
The term was mentioned as a toponym for Yazidi settlements by Kurds, Turks, Arabs, and even European travellers.
The most famous example was the Yazidi Autonomous region of Radwan, which was located South of Siirt. There were representatives of the powerful Yezidi Halti tribe, who had their own armed forces, with which they successfully defended their lands from the Ottoman forces and Kurdish princes for a long time. According to Russian sources, the Yazidi army here consisted of 3,700-6,500 seasoned fighters.
The European traveller Henry A. Homs in 1842 noted these territories under the term "Ezidkhan" (Homs, 1842). And the Prussian field Marshal Helmut von Moltke (1800 – 1891) in the 30s of the XIX century. in his works, the river flowing here was called "Ezidkhan". In the future, this term prevailed in the geographical works of German and European cartographers.
The term was actively used in the Middle Ages. Carl Ritter, in 1846, wrote that the territory near the river Radwan Turks call Sidhana. The Yazidi halti tribe lived there. The Kurdish historian Mela Mahmoud Bayezidi also described the "Ezidhan tribes around Mosul and Shangal".
From European travellers and scientists, we also have maps with the designation of places where the Yazidis live compactly with the term "Ezidhan".
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Ezdikhan on old maps
Ezdikhan (lit. "house of Yazidis") once meant" the country " in which the Yazidis lived. These were the Yazidi settlement territories that are now part of modern-day Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and Iran.
The term was mentioned as a toponym for Yazidi settlements by Kurds, Turks, Arabs, and even European travellers.
The most famous example was the Yazidi Autonomous region of Radwan, which was located South of Siirt. There were representatives of the powerful Yezidi Halti tribe, who had their own armed forces, with which they successfully defended their lands from the Ottoman forces and Kurdish princes for a long time. According to Russian sources, the Yazidi army here consisted of 3,700-6,500 seasoned fighters.
The European traveller Henry A. Homs in 1842 noted these territories under the term "Ezidkhan" (Homs, 1842). And the Prussian field Marshal Helmut von Moltke (1800 – 1891) in the 30s of the XIX century. in his works, the river flowing here was called "Ezidkhan". In the future, this term prevailed in the geographical works of German and European cartographers.
The term was actively used in the Middle Ages. Carl Ritter, in 1846, wrote that the territory near the river Radwan Turks call Sidhana. The Yazidi halti tribe lived there. The Kurdish historian Mela Mahmoud Bayezidi also described the "Ezidhan tribes around Mosul and Shangal".
From European travellers and scientists, we also have maps with the designation of places where the Yazidis live compactly with the term "Ezidhan".
Source: ezidipress
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