Mahmud Barzanji
Kurdish leader (1878 – 1956) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji (Kurdish: شێخ مهحموود بەرزنجی) or Mahmud Hafid Zadeh (1878 – October 9, 1956) was a Kurdish leader of a series of Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq. He was sheikh of a Qadiriyah Sufi family of the Barzanji clan from the city of Sulaymaniyah, which is now in Iraqi Kurdistan. He was named King of Kurdistan during several of these uprisings.
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Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji شێخ مهحموود | |
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Şêx Mehmûdê Berzencî Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji[1] | |
King of Kurdistan | |
Reign | 1922–1924 |
Born | 1878 Sulaymaniyah, Mosul Vilayet, Ottoman Iraq, Ottoman Empire |
Died | 9 October 1956(1956-10-09) (aged 77–78) Baghdad, Iraq |
Burial | Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq |
Issue | Baba Ali Shaikh Mahmood (son, 1912–1996) |
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