Beth Garmai, (Arabic: باجرمي, lit. 'Bājarmī', Middle Persian: Garamig/Garamīkān/Garmagān, New Persian/Kurdish: Garmakan, Classical Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܓܪܡܐ, romanized: Bêṯ Garmē,[1] Latin and Greek: Garamaea) is a historical region around the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq.[2] It is located at southeast of the Little Zab, southwest of the mountains of Shahrazor, northeast of the Tigris and Hamrin Mountains, although sometimes including parts of southwest of Hamrin Mountains, and northwest of the Sirwan River.
According to Michael G. Morony, it was named after a people, possibly a Persian tribe.[3]
The region was a province, Garmekan, under the Sasanians. It was a prosperous metropolitan province centered at Karkha D'Beth Slokh (Kirkuk), It had a substantial Nestorian Assyrian population until the fourteenth century, when the region was conquered by Timurlane.[4]
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