The Journal of Mesopotamian Studies

Yazarlar: Ergin ÖPENGİN

Konular:Antropoloji

Anahtar Kelimeler:Annalistic source,18th century,Kurdish principalities,Northern Mesopotamia,Ottoman Kurdistan

Özet: This paper presents a chronicle written down at the end of the 18th century in Amadiya or Akre towns of present-day Iraqi Kurdistan. The chronicle is a single folio side written in Persian and found within a larger manuscript of mostly Persian poetry, today kept at the Berlin State Library. It enumerates a number of historical events from 1694 to 1781 in what can be considered as Upper Mesopotamia or southern part of the Ottoman Kurdistan. The recorded events relate to the political and major socio-economic developments in the region. The paper provides a Kurdish translation of the chronicle and analyzes the persons and events mentioned in the chronicle within their historical context, comparing it also to a similar annalistic document from Syriac tradition

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