Jolemark

Jolemark covered the Kurdish mountain corridor south-east of Lake Van. Its fourteenth-century inhabitants included the Mahmudi, originally Yazidis from Cizre and the Jazira, who rose under the Kara Koyunlu.

In 1406 Qara Yusuf granted Ashut and Hoşap to Shaykh Mahmud. Around the mid-sixteenth century Hasan Beg became Sunni and received Shah Tahmasp's confirmation as ruler of Hoşap. Sarı Süleyman Bey rebuilt its castle in 1649; a league of neighbouring Kurdish beys destroyed the Mahmudi principality in 1829.