The “Mir Kora” or Muhammad Pasha of Rawanduz started Kurdish independence quest against the Ottomans in 1813, after the death of his father, the Mir started multiple campaign against the Ottoman and Local Yazidi forces, he won multiple Battle and could established a powerful state in this region.

First Rawandiz Revolt
Part of Kurdish-Ottoman conflict

Kurdistan under the Ottoman Empire, 1823.
Date1813-1836
Location
Result

Soran victory [1]

  • Soran Emirate gained independence from the Ottoman Empire and was later confronted again.
Belligerents

Soran Emirate
Supporters:

Qajar Iran (Sometimes)

 Ottoman Empire

Supporters:
Yazidis troops
Assyrians troops
 United Kingdom>
Qajar Iran (Sometimes)
Commanders and leaders
Mir Muhammad Pasha of Rawanduz Ottoman Empire Mahmud II
Ottoman Empire Emir Sivas
Ottoman Empire Emir Baghdad  
Ottoman Empire Emir Mosul
Agha Malak  
Ali Beg   [2]
Strength
15.000-50.000[3] 90.000-200.000[4][5]
Casualties and losses
Unknown
  • In 1832
    70,000 Yazidi massacred[6]
  • In 1833
    500 Yazidi massacred[7]

References

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  1. Eppel, Michael (2016), A People Without a State, The Kurds from the Rise of Islam to the Dawn of Nationalism, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-4773-0911-7
  2. Jwaideh, Wadie (2006-06-19). The Kurdish National Movement: Its Origins and Development. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-3093-7.
  3. Muhammad, Qadir Muhammad (2017-12-14). Kurds and Kurdistan in the View of British Travellers in the Nineteenth Century (thesis thesis). University of Leicester. pp.94–98.
  4. Vartanyan 2011, p. 270.
  5. Kurdish movement in modern and contemporary times 1987, p. 10-11.
  6. Steinvorth, Daniel (2016-12-22). "Jagd auf den Engel Pfau | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  7. Ateş, Sabri (2013-10-21). Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands: Making a Boundary, 1843-1914. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107033658.