Medieval Upper Mesopotamia

Kurdish dynasty from 1171 to 1341

The Artuqid dynasty (alternatively Artukid, Ortoqid, or Ortokid; Old Anatolian Turkish: , , pl. ) was established in 1102 as a Turkish principality of the Seljuk Empire. It formed a Turkoman dynasty rooted in the Oghuz Döger tribe, and followed the Sunni Muslim faith. It ruled in Northern Syria and Upper Mesopotamia in the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. The Artuqid dynasty took its name from its founder, Artuk Bey, who was a member of Döger branch of the Oghuz Turks and ruled one of the Turkmen principalities of the Seljuk Empire. Artuk's sons and descendants ruled the three branches i

Byzantine general and Catepan of Italy

Kurdish dynasty ruling the regions of Armenia and North Mesopotamia (983–1085)

The Inalids (the sons of İnal or Yinal, ) was the name of a small Turkish beylik (principality) which reigned in a small territory around Amid (modern Diyarbakır in Turkey) between 1098–1183.

Gökböri (13 April 115428 June 1233) or Muzaffar ad-Din Gökböri, was a leading emir and general of Sultan Saladin (Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb), and ruler of Erbil. He served both the Zengid and Ayyubid rulers of Syria and Egypt. He played a pivotal role in Saladin's conquest of Northern Syria and the Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia) and later held major commands in a number of battles against the Crusader states and the forces of the Third Crusade. He was known as Manafaradin, a corruption of his principal praise name, to the Franks of the Crusader states.

Arab dynasty circa 990-1081

medieval Arabic name of the easternmost and largest of the three provinces of the Jazira

arab tribe

Medieval province in Upper Mesopotamia

province of Arab Islamic Caliphates

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kurdish Emirate of Hasankeyf