Dasni

Dasni was the land of a Kurdish tribe around Duhok and Sheikhan, associated with the Yazidi faith. By the early fourteenth century hereditary mirs were both their princes and religious chiefs.

In the fifteenth century Bahdinan attacked their strongholds; the institution of the mir took its final form in the sixteenth century. Under Ottoman rule Ezidi Mirza served as governor of Sinjar in 1644 and of Mosul in 1650. Istanbul repeatedly sought to reduce the sanjak, but its emirs retained a measure of autonomy around Sheikhan.