Hazro

Hazro was a Kurdish tribal chiefdom in the hills north of Diyarbakr, encompassing Hazro, Kulp and the high valleys of Sasun. Kurdish tribes had settled in Sasun by the late thirteenth century.

A 1527 tax register counted this region among the minor emirates of the Vilayet-i Kurdistan. Around 1533 Suleiman I confirmed hereditary succession for loyal Kurdish beys. In the seventeenth century Evliya Celebi listed Hazo among Diyarbekir's autonomous Kurdish districts, which paid no tax, sent no troops and chose their own rulers; Kulp was a hereditary Kurdish sanjak.