Bohtan

Bohtan was a Kurdish principality of the Azizan dynasty in the northern Jazira, centred on Cizre on the Tigris. In 1336 or 1337 the Bohtan took Cizre with help from Hisn Kayfa, whose emir gave his daughter in marriage to its prince Izz al-Din Ahmad.

Hisn Kayfa attacked Cizre in 1384 but was repelled. Ezzaddin Abdal submitted to Timur in 1394; after Bohtan fought beside the Ottomans against the Safavids at Çaldıran in 1514, it became a hereditary Ottoman Kurdish principality. In 1821 Bedir Khan Bey became its ruler and formed an elite force from its tribes.