Bahdinan

Badinan (also Bahdinan ) was a Kurdish principality, which had approximately the size of present-day Iraqi governorate of Dahuk and whose capital was Amediye.

The area was in the north and northeast of the level of Mosul, east of the Great Zab and west of the Euphrates. In the north Badinan bordering on the principality of Botan in Hakkari and the west and south of the principality of Soran.

Around the year 1200 founded a noble Kurd named Baha ad-Din in Amediye a new dynasty. His name was in a modified form the Principality of the name. He had immigrated from the Schamdinangebiet, today Semdinli in Hakkari today in the area around Amediye. The princely family traces its lineage back to the Abbasids. Amediye became the capital of Badinan. Badinan was only one of several Kurdish principalities, which formally came under the Ottomans, but freed because of special rules of Taxes and were largely autonomous.

The ruler of the principality of Soran - Mir Mohammed overran the principality Badinan 1832 and took the city Amediye. 1842 Badinans status was abandoned as a principality and it was connected to the Vilayet of Mosul. Large Eşirets ( dt: strains) of the principality were the Mzuri and Zibari. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari The present belongs to this tribe. The medieval Kurdish author Scherefhan still calls the Rikan that Berwari, the Mahal, the Siyabravi that Tayli that Buhli, the Sindi and Süleymani. Muslim and Yezidi Kurds, Christian Assyrians and Jews formed the population of the principality.

Badinan is still regarded as an area name in northern Iraq; It includes the cities Dihok, Zakho, Amediye, Akre and Sinjar.

Furthermore Badinan is the name for the local expression of Kurmanji, which is spoken in this region.