Back بدليسيون Arabic Bitlis xanlığı Azerbaijani میرنشینی بەدلیس CKB Bitlis (Fürstentum) German Principado de Bitlis Spanish شاهزادهنشین بدلیس Persian Bitlis (principauté kurde) French Principato di Bitlis Italian Mîrektiya Bedlîsê Kurdish Bitlisas emirāts Latvian/Lettish
Principality of Bitlis | |||||||||
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| 1182–1847 | |||||||||
| Status |
(1655-1847) | ||||||||
| Capital | Bitlis | ||||||||
| Common languages | Persian (ruling class/elite, bureaucracy, chancery, literary, Sufis, mercantile, scholarly, madrasas, building inscriptions, gravestone inscriptions)[1] | ||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||
| Khan/Hakim | |||||||||
• 1578-1597 | Sharaf al-Din Bitlisi | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1182 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1847 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Bitlis Province | ||||||||
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The Principality of Bitlis, also known as the Bitlis Khanate,[2] and the Bitlis Emirate (1182–1847), was a Persianate[3] Kurdish principality centered at Bitlis. It originated from the Rojaki (or Rozagi) tribal confederation.
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- ^ Genç, Vural (2024). "The Cultural Impact of the Persian Language in and around Bidlis". Iranian Studies. 57 (1): 28. doi:10.1017/irn.2023.61.
In fact, Bidlis was part of the vast "Persianate world" or, as Green reconceptualizes, "Persographia," which stretched from the Balkans to Central Asia and from the Indian subcontinent to the Caucasus, the area where Persian language, culture, literature, art, and identity dominated strongly.