Jwamer Aga

Jwamer Aga, was the head of the Kurdish tribe of Hamawand during the late nineteenth century Ottoman era, Jwamer was given the governorship of the Zuhab district after the overthrow of its hereditary ruling family the Bajalan.[1] Jwamer which means one who is descented from nobility or is noble.[2]

Jwamer was assassinated in 1888 after he rebelled against the Persians.[3] Jwamer held the Persian forces at Qasr-e Shirin for two months.[4]

George Nathaniel Curzon notes that Jwamer was invited to a meeting with Tehran's emissary, where he was slain.[5] Jwamer is considered an early Kurdish nationalist figure by the citizens of the Kurdistan Region, A village was named in his honour in the northernmost part of the Kifri district in the Diyala Province.

Former KDP Secretary General Ibrahim Ahmad named the main character in his famed nationalistic novel Jani Gal in reference to Jwamer[6]

Notes
  1. Edmonds, Cecil John (1957). Kurds, Turks, and Arabs: politics ... - Cecil John Edmonds - Google Books. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  2. Sabar, Yona (2002). A Jewish Neo-Aramaic dictionary ... - Yona Sabar - Google Books. ISBN 9783447045575. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  3. Edmonds, Cecil John (1957). Kurds, Turks, and Arabs: politics ... - Cecil John Edmonds - Google Books. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  4. The anthropology of Iraq - Henry Field, Richard Arthur Martin - Google Books. Field Museum. 1940. Retrieved 2012-06-18.
  5. Yar-Shater, Ehsan (2009-09-01). Encyclopaedia Iranica - Ehsan Yar-Shater - Google Books. ISBN 9780933273719. Retrieved 2011-10-20.
  6. Bengio, Ofra (2014). Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland. U.S.A: University of Texas Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0292763012.

References
  • Ehsan Yar-Shater Encyclopaedia Iranica Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2003 ISBN 978-0-939214-75-4
  • Cecil John Edmonds "Kurds, Turks, and Arabs: politics, travel, and research in north-eastern Iraq, 1919-1925" Oxford University Press, 1957 ISBN 978-0-404-18960-0
  • Yona Sabar "A Jewish Neo-Aramaic dictionary" Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2002 ISBN 3-447-04557-4
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