Battle

Capture of Bitlis

Jan 1855 · 38.40° N, 42.12° E

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When
Jan 1855
Kind
Battle
Coordinates
38.40° N, 42.12° E
Description
1855 battle

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Yezdanşêr

Kurdish military leader

Yezdanşêr was a Kurdish leader, military officer and a relative of Bedir Khan Beg. He became shortly the Müteselim of Cizre and later led a revolt against the Ottoman Empire in the mid 1850s. After the revolt failed, he was exiled to Vidin, returning to the Ottoman bureaucracy in 1860s.

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