Kurdish History Journal
Articles filed under Treaties.
The settlement left Jerusalem under Muslim rule while preserving Frankish coastal holdings and access for Christian pilgrims. Latin and Arabic accounts explain why both sides accepted a temporary truce after the fighting of the Third Crusade.
Read article →Mumahhid al-Dawla’s encounter with Basil II brought imperial honours and security arrangements. Chronicles, an inscription and coins reveal both Marwanid political agency and the unequal relationships of the frontier.
Read article →The settlement between Rome and the Sasanian king Narseh changed authority over frontier territories, Armenian and Iberian royal affairs, and trade through Nisibis. Its surviving summaries name Corduene, but the original treaty document has not survived. Modern scholarship dates the settlement to 298 or 299 CE.
Read article →Plutarch describes a secret alliance, the death of Gordyene’s king and a funeral arranged by Lucullus. Reading that account alongside Strabo and Cassius Dio separates ancient diplomacy from unsupported treaty terms and later national claims.
Read article →After the Medes captured Assur in 614 BCE, Cyaxares and Nabopolassar reached an agreement. The surviving chronicle records their meeting; it does not preserve the detailed treaty clauses sometimes attributed to the alliance.
Read article →Esarhaddon’s succession arrangements survive in multiple cuneiform tablets. Their demands for loyalty illuminate Assyrian imperial government and its eastern subjects, but do not provide a genealogy of modern Kurdish people.
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