Zerzari

The Zerzari were a Kurdish tribe of the Erbil region, probably a branch of the Hadhbani confederation. In the fourteenth century they held a mountain pocket near Rawanduz.

The geographer al-Umari, who died in 1349, described the Zerzari as effectively independent of the great states. Their territory lay between the Qandil range, Lake Dukan and Ushnu, commanding a pass between Mongol-held Azerbaijan and the Jazira.