This article is a list of Kurdish dynasties, countries, and autonomous territories. The Kurds are an Iranian people without their own nation state; they inhabit a geo-cultural region known as "Kurdistan", which lies in east Turkey, north Syria, north Iraq, and west Iran. (For more information see Origin of the Kurds.)

8th–19th century states

Prior to the Ayyubid dynasty (until 1171) Hadhbanis (906–1144) Aishanids (912–961) Daysam's Adharbayjan (938–955) Shaddadids (951–1199)Amir Hassanpour, Nationalism and Language in Kurdistan, 1918–1985, Mellen Research University Press, 1992, p. 50. Rawwadids (955–1071) Hasanwayhids (959–1014) Marwanids (983–1096) Annazids (990/91–1117) Shabankara (11th century–12th century) Principality of Eğil (1049–1864) Atabegete of Greater Lorestan (1115–1425) Zakarids (1161–1360)Alexei Lidov, 1991, The mural paintings of Akhtala, p. 14, Nauka Publishers, Central Dept. of Oriental Literature, University of Michigan, , It is clear from the account of these Armenian historians that Ivane's great grandfather broke away from the Kurdish tribe of BabirVladimir Minorsky, 1953, Studies in Caucasian History, p. 102, CUP Archive, , According to a tradition which has every reason to be true, their ancestors were Mesopotamian Kurds of the tribe (xel) Babirakan.Richard Barrie Dobson, 2000, Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages: A–J, p. 107, Editions du Cerf, University of Michigan, , under the Christianized Kurdish dynasty of Zak'arids they tried to re-establish nazarar system... Ayyubid dynasty (1171–1341)R. S. Humphreys, Ayyubids, "Encyclopaedia Iranica", (August 18, 2011),

After the Ayyubid dynasty (after 1171) Emirate of Kilis (1181/1183–1610) Principality of Bitlis (1187–1847) Emirate of Şirvan (?–1840s) Sheikhan principality (c. 13th century–present) Emirate of Çemişgezek (13th century–1663) Principality of Donboli (1210–1799) Emirate of Bingöl (1231–1864) Emirate of Hasankeyf (1232–1524) Mukriyan (14th century–19th century) Vassaldom of Ardalan (14th century–1865 or 1868) Principality of Zirqan (1335–1835) Emirate of Bahdinan (1339–1843) Emirate of Hakkâri (Before 1380s–1845) Principality of Suleyman (15th century–1838) Principality of Mahmudi (1406–1839) Zarrinnaal Dynasty (1448–1925) Emirate of Palu (1495–1845)Nusret Aydın, Diyarbakır and Mirdasiler History, 2011, pp. 304–305 Emirate of Pazooka (1499–1587)

16th century onwards Baban (16th century–1850) Emirate of Bradost (1510–1609) Zafaranlu principality (1600-1922) Emirate of Bohtan (before 1514–1847) Emirate of Soran (before 1514–1836) Principality of Pinyaşi (1548–1823) Principality of Ezdikhan (1593-1836) Sarab Khanate (18th century) Zand dynasty (1750–1794) – The dynasty is of Kurdish Lak origin....the bulk of the evidence points to their being one of the northern Lur or Lak tribes, who may originally have been immigrants of Kurdish origin., Peter Avery, William Bayne Fisher, Gavin Hambly, Charles Melville (ed.), The Cambridge History of Iran: From Nadir Shah to the Islamic Republic, Cambridge University Press, 1991, , p. 64. Tabriz Khanate (1757–1799) Hasan Khan dynasty in Pish-e Kuh (1795–1820) Emirate of Miks (?–1846)

20th and 21st century states

Kurdish State (1918–1919) Kingdom of Kurdistan (1921–1924 and 1925) Kurdistan Uezd (1923–1929) Republic of Ararat (1927–1931) Republic of Mahabad (1946–1947) Republic of Laçin (1992) Islamic Emirate of Kurdistan (1994–2003) Kurdish Supreme Committee

Current entities Kurdistan Region (semi-autonomous federal region of Iraq, 1970–present) Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (de facto autonomous region in Syria, 2012–present)

See also Zuzan al-Akrad Kurdish emirates Kurdistan Eyalet House of Kayus Corduene A Modern History of the Kurds by David McDowall

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External links Historical map: Kurdish states in 1835 Historical map: Kurdish political enclaves and territorial demands, 1919–98