Bohtan

Bohtan
Bohtan
1161/1247/1335–1855
	Botan emirate shown in 1730 Ottens Map as "Regnum Bochtanonum"
Status	Sovereign state (before 1514); Vassal of the Ottoman Empire;
Capital	Cizre
Religion	Yazidism, Sunni Islam (from 14th century)
Government	Principality
Mir
• 1821–1847	Bedir Khan Beg (last)
History
• Established	1161/1247/1335
• Disestablished	1855
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Zengid dynasty
	Ayyubid Sultanate
Ottoman Empire
Today part of	Turkey, Al-Hasakah Governorate, Iraq

Bohtan (also Buhtan, Bokhti, Botan, Cizre-Botan, Bokhtan) was a medieval Kurdish principality in the Ottoman Empire centered on the town of Jazirah ibn 'Omar (modern Cizre also known as Cizîra Botan (Jazira Botan)) in southeastern Anatolia. The official religion of this principality was Yezidism in 14th century, although the rulers eventually converted to Islam, Bohtan constituted the third major Yezidi enclave after Shekhan and Sinjar until the 19th century.^[1]^[2]

^ SHIELDS, SARAH (August 2001). "NELIDA FUCCARO, The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq, Library of Modern Middle East Studies, vol. 14 (London: I. B. Tauris, 1999). Pp. 246. $55 cloth". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 33 (3): 463–465. doi:10.1017/s0020743801293064. ISSN 0020-7438. S2CID 161122658.
^ Allison Robins, Christine (2015), The Yezidis

[1] SHIELDS, SARAH (August 2001). "NELIDA FUCCARO, The Other Kurds: Yazidis in Colonial Iraq, Library of Modern Middle East Studies, vol. 14 (London: I. B. Tauris, 1999). Pp. 246. $55 cloth". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 33 (3): 463–465. doi:10.1017/s0020743801293064. ISSN 0020-7438. S2CID 161122658.

[2] Allison Robins, Christine (2015), The Yezidis

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