Çemişgezek

Çemişgezek was a Kurdish principality in the upper Euphrates mountains, including Çemişgezek and Pertek. Its Malkishi rulers traced their line to Malik Shah.

Hajji Rustam submitted to the Safavids, but was executed after seeking Selim I's pardon following the Ottoman victory at Chaldiran in 1514. His son Pir Husayn secured Ottoman recognition of the family lands as hereditary tenure. Succession disputes divided the emirate into sanjaks, and its last remnant disappeared in 1663.