Kingdom of Kurdistan

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The Kingdom of Kurdistan was a short-lived, early 20th-century Kurdish monarchy centered in northern Iraq that represented one of the first modern attempts to establish an independent Kurdish state.

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Mahmud Barzanji Kingdom 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf former monarchy
historical polity
unrecognized state
aim establish independent Kurdish state
alsoKnownAs Kingdom of Kurdistan
surface form: Mahmud Barzanji Kingdom
capital Sulaymaniyah
commonLanguage Kurdish
conflict Iraqi Kurdish rebellions
surface form: Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (early 1920s)
conventionalLongName Kingdom of Kurdistan self-link
country Kingdom of Kurdistan self-link
currencyUsed Iraqi rupee or local currencies
demographicMajority Kurdish population
dissolutionCause British intervention
military defeat
duration short-lived
endDate 1924
establishedAfter Treaty of Sèvres
collapse of Ottoman Empire
ethnicGroup Kurds
firstRuler Mahmud Barzanji
flagUsed flag associated with Mahmud Barzanji’s rule
followedBy Kingdom of Iraq
governmentType monarchy
headOfState Mahmud Barzanji
historicalEra Interwar period
post–World War I period
historicalRegion Kurdistan
surface form: Iraqi Kurdistan
leader Mahmud Barzanji
legacy early attempt at modern Kurdish statehood
symbol of Kurdish self-determination
locatedIn Mesopotamia
Middle East
northern Iraq
surface form: Northern Iraq
monarch Mahmud Barzanji
notableCity Sulaymaniyah
opposedBy British Iraq Mandate
surface form: British authorities in Iraq

Kingdom of Iraq
partOf modern history of Kurdistan
precededBy Ottoman Empire
recognizedBy none or very few states
relatedTo Kurdish independence movement
Kurdish nationalism
religion Islam
Sunni Islam
rulerTitle king
shortName Kingdom of Kurdistan self-link
startDate 1922
successorState Kingdom of Iraq

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Kingdom of Kurdistan alsoKnownAs Kingdom of Kurdistan
this entity surface form: Mahmud Barzanji Kingdom
Kingdom of Kurdistan conventionalLongName Kingdom of Kurdistan self-link
Kingdom of Kurdistan country Kingdom of Kurdistan self-link
Kurds historicalEntity Kingdom of Kurdistan
Kingdom of Kurdistan shortName Kingdom of Kurdistan self-link