Kurdish History Journal
Abu Hanifa Dinawari (c. 815–896 CE) was a Kurdish polymath, founder of Arabic botany, astronomer, historian and linguist. Discover his remarkable contribution to Islamic Golden Age science.
Read article →Bahlool Mahi (9th century) was an early Kurdish figure of the Islamic era. Discover his place in Kurdish history and the early Kurdish Islamic tradition.
Read article →Jaban al-Kurdi (6th century) was a Kurdish companion (Sahabi) of the Prophet Muhammad — one of the first Kurds to embrace Islam. Discover his place in Kurdish history.
Read article →Abgar I (c. 94–68 BCE) was the first Osroene king to bear the Abgar name. He ruled from Edessa (modern Riha/Şanlıurfa), controlling the highway along the southern Kurdish plateau. Discover his place in Kurdish history.
Read article →Mannus (Ma'nu) of Osroene was one of several kings of the Abgarid dynasty at Edessa (modern Riha/Şanlıurfa), controlling the highway along the southern Kurdish plateau. Discover his place in Kurdish history.
Read article →Zarbienus was the king of Gordyene (Corduene) who died c. 71/70 BCE seeking Roman alliance against Tigranes. Lucullus held his royal funeral. Discover his place in Kurdish ancestral history.
Read article →Astyages lost his throne to Cyrus around 550 BCE. Comparing the Babylonian chronicle with Herodotus separates the recorded army revolt from the stories of prophetic dreams, family ties and Harpagus’s revenge.
Read article →Cyaxares (Hvakhshathra) 625–585 BCE was the greatest Median king. He destroyed Nineveh in 612 BCE — an event commemorated in Kurdish nationalism as the dawn of the Kurdish year. Discover his extraordinary story.
Read article →Madius (653–625 BCE) was the Scythian king who dominated Media after Phraortes' death. Discover this unique chapter in the story of the Median Empire and Kurdish ancestral history.
Read article →Phraortes (Fravartish) 675–653 BCE expanded the Median Empire and launched the first great Median assault on Assyria. Discover his place in Kurdish ancestral history.
Read article →Herodotus presents Deioces as the founder of Median kingship. Assyrian inscriptions name a Daiukku, but identifying the two men remains hypothetical. Their sources need to be read separately before constructing a biography.
Read article →Shattuara II (c. 1250 BCE) was the last known king of the Mitanni Empire, defeated by Shalmaneser I. Discover the final chapter of this Kurdish ancestral dynasty.
Read article →Wasashatta (c. 1285 BCE) was a Mitanni king who sought Hittite help against Assyria but was defeated by Shalmaneser I. Discover his place in Kurdish ancestral history.
Read article →Shattuara I (c. 1305 BCE) was a Mitanni king who submitted to Assyria under Adad-nirari I then rebelled. Discover his place in Kurdish ancestral history.
Read article →Shattiwaza (c. 1330 BCE) was the son of Tushratta, installed as Hittite vassal king of Mitanni after Suppiluliuma I sacked Washukanni. Discover his place in Kurdish ancestral history.
Read article →Shuttarna III (c. 1330 BCE) was a Mitanni king, son of Artatama II, whose reign saw the symbolic reversal of Mitanni imperial power. Discover his place in Kurdish ancestral history.
Read article →Artatama II challenged Tushratta during Mitanni’s fourteenth-century BCE crisis. Treaty narratives identify his alliance and his son Shuttarna, while leaving important questions about his ancestry and reign unresolved.
Read article →Tushratta (c. 1358–1350 BCE) was the most documented Mitanni king, known through the Amarna Letters. Discover his dramatic reign and place in Kurdish ancestral history.
Read article →Artashumara (c. 1360 BCE) was a Mitanni king murdered by court official Na'wa shortly after taking the throne. Discover his place in Kurdish ancestral history.
Read article →Shuttarna II (c. 1380 BCE) reigned at the peak of Mitanni power, sending his daughter Kile-Hepa to marry Amenhotep III of Egypt. Discover his place in Kurdish ancestral history.
Read article →Artatama I (c. 1400 BCE) forged the Mitanni-Egypt alliance by giving his daughter to Pharaoh Thutmose IV. Discover his place in Kurdish ancestral history.
Read article →Shaitarna was a Mitanni king c. 1425 BCE, part of the Hurrian empire that Kurdish historians regard as Kurdish ancestral civilisation. Discover his place in Mitanni and Kurdish history.
Read article →Larkutla was the twelfth and final Lullubi king c. 675 BCE. Discover his place in Kurdish ancestral history and the extraordinary 1,800-year Lullubi Kingdom.
Read article →Dada of Arzizu was a Lullubian ruler in Sargon II’s time. Explore the evidence, regional geography and limits of what is known.
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