Ridwan (place)

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Ridwan or Redwan (also Ridvan) was a place in the Ottoman Empire (in the Garzan area, south of Siirt in modern-day Turkey) that was inhabited by Yazidis.[1][2]

Alternative name

The American missionary Henry A. Homes quoted the name "Yezidi Khan" as alternative name for Ridwan in the 19th century.[3][4][5]

History

Ridwan was an autonomous Yazidi principality in the 19th century. First the Yazidi prince Mirza Agha ruled over the area and lastly Seid Beg. A castle and a river in the region were also known by the name Ridwan.[1][2][6][7][8][9]

Population

The location was mainly inhabited by Yazidis, but a few hundred Armenians also lived there. Prince Mirza Agha built a church in Ridwan for the Christian Armenian inhabitants.[10]

Massacre of the Yazidis in Ridwan

There were many armed conflicts between the Yazidis and the Muslim Kurds in Ridwan.[6] In particular, the Kurds of the Goyan tribe, who called themselves the "Knights of Islam", were especially hostile to the Yazidis. Once members of the Goyan tribe attacked a Yazidi caravan consisting of 1,500 unarmed horsemen and killed 500 of them. The Kurdish prince Bedir Khan Beg also carried out many massacres of the Yazidis. Some Yazidis migrated to Sheikhan and Sinjar to escape Kurdish harassment and persecution.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Ridvan. the former "Yezidi capital"". www.jelleverheij.net. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  2. ^ a b Layard, Austen Henry (1871). Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon: With Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan, and the Desert: Being the Result of a Second Expedition Undertaken for the Trustees of British Museum. Harper & brothers.
  3. ^ The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. J. M. Sherwood. 1842.
  4. ^ The American Biblical Repository. 1842.
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  6. ^ a b Yazidis; Yazidis. "The battle between the Yezidis and the Kurds at Radwan 1828". Yazidis.Az. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  7. ^ Das Ausland: Wochenschrift für Länder- u. Völkerkunde (in German). Cotta. 1853.
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