Çapakçur

Çapakçur, later known as the Emirate of Bingöl, was a Kurdish principality west of Lake Van, centered on Çabakçur and Genç. The Suveydi family ruled it, and in 1337 Shap was its chief.

The principality successively came under the Ilkhans, Kara Koyunlu and Aq Qoyunlu. Early in the sixteenth century the Safavids captured Çapakçur, while Emir Abdal Bey held its inner fortress of Hançuk until his death. After the 1514 Battle of Chaldiran, the principality submitted to the Ottomans; in the early seventeenth century its lands fell under the Emirate of Palu.