Domboli-Bokht

Domboli-Bokht represented the Bokht branch of the Donboli, a Kurdish tribe associated with Yazidism and said to originate in Bohtan between Siirt and Cizre. In the fourteenth century its clans held strongholds near Akre and Hakkari.

Before 1378, Isa Beg’s heirs ruled Sokmanabad. Under the Aq Qoyunlu, his descendant Shaikh Ahmad Beg took Hakkari and Bay castle. The Safavid shah Tahmasp I later joined Sokmanabad and Khoy under Ahmad’s grandson Haji Beg, charging him with guarding the frontier. Some Donboli families remained south of Diyarbakr.