Marwanids (Diyar Bakr)
The Marwanids or Dustakids (983/990-1085, Kurdish: میرنشینی مەروانی) were a Kurdish Sunni Muslim dynasty in the Diyar Bakr region of Upper Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq/southeastern Turkey) and Armenia, centered on the city of Amid (Diyarbakır).
Marwanid dynasty | |||||||||||||
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| 983/990–1085 | |||||||||||||
| Capital | Amid | ||||||||||||
| Spoken languages | Kurdish (mother tongue) Arabic (poetry/numismatics) | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam (official) | ||||||||||||
| Government | Emirate | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 983/990 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1085 | ||||||||||||
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