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The '''Bajalan''' people. Are a [[Kurdish tribe]] in [[Iraqi Kurdistan]]. The Bajalan moved to Mosul from modern day [[Turkey]] in the eighteenth century as the ottoman state's tax collectors and at times supplied local notables due to their good relations with [[Ottoman]] Valis. The Bajalan population was estimated at 2000 families by Rawlinson. |
The '''Bajalan''' people. Are a [[Kurdish tribe]] in [[Iraqi Kurdistan]]. The Bajalan moved to Mosul from modern day [[Turkey]] in the eighteenth century as the ottoman state's tax collectors and at times supplied local notables due to their good relations with [[Ottoman]] Valis. The Bajalan population was estimated at 2000 families by Rawlinson. |
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Mustafa Pasha, the paramount chief the Bajalan in 1917 worked with the British to expel Turkish forces from the area. |
Mustafa Pasha, the paramount chief the Bajalan in 1917 worked with the British to expel Turkish forces from the area. |
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* The Kurdish national movement: its origins and development, by Wadie Jwaideh. |
* The Kurdish national movement: its origins and development, by Wadie Jwaideh. |
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* Encyclopaedia Iranica, Volume 3 By Ehsan Yar-Shater. |
* Encyclopaedia Iranica, Volume 3 By Ehsan Yar-Shater. |
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* The Kurds: a concise handbook By Mehrdad R. Izady. |
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The Bajalan people. Are a Kurdish tribe in Iraqi Kurdistan. Mehrdad Izady states the the Bajalan speak a Gornai dialect. The Bajalan moved to Mosul from modern day Turkey in the eighteenth century as the ottoman state's tax collectors and at times supplied local notables due to their good relations with Ottoman Valis. The Bajalan population was estimated at 2000 families by Rawlinson.
Mustafa Pasha, the paramount chief the Bajalan in 1917 worked with the British to expel Turkish forces from the area.
Bibliography
- Syncretistic religious communities in the Near East, by Krisztina Kehl-Bodrogi, Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Anke Otter-Beaujean.
- The Kurdish national movement: its origins and development, by Wadie Jwaideh.
- Encyclopaedia Iranica, Volume 3 By Ehsan Yar-Shater.
- The Kurds: a concise handbook By Mehrdad R. Izady.