This is a list of Kurdish dynasties, countries and autonomous territories. The Kurds are a people without their own ethnic state residing in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, western Iran, northwestern Syria and some parts of Armenia. (For more information see Origin of the Kurds.)[1][2]
Various Kurdish political entities blossomed in the period after the disestablishment of the Ayyubid dynasty in 1260. Some of these rulers claimed descent from the Ayyubids.
For various reasons, Kurdish entities existed as buffer zones between the Ottoman Empire and Persia throughout history. These include:
Of Kurdish ancestry, the Ṣafavids started as a Sunnī mystical order (...)
The Safavids, as Iranians of Kurdish ancestry and of nontribal background (...)
As Persians of Kurdish ancestry and of a non-tribal background, the Safavids (...)
This official version contains textual changes designed to obscure the Kurdish origins of the Safavid family and to vindicate their claim to descent from the Imams.
RAWWADIDS [...] a family of Arab descent [...] Their Kurdicized descendants ruled over Azerbaijan and parts of Armenia in the second half of the 10th and much of the 11th century.
The founder of the dynasty was Moḥammad Karim Khan b. Ināq Khan (...) of the Bagala branch of the Zand, a pastoral tribe of the Lak branch of Lors (perhaps originally Kurds; see Minorsky, p. 616) (...)
In 1992 the area of Laçin was occupied by Armeian forces; a "Kurdish Republic of Laçin" was subsequently declared by local Kurds, but this remained a rather short-lived - not to say stillborn - adventure