Bulduqani

The Bulduqani were a Kurdish dynasty, of Zaza speech, who ruled the Principality of Eğil north of Diyarbakır for some eight centuries. The line was founded by Pir Mansur, a Sufi leader who took Eğil around 1049 with the backing of the local Mirdesan tribe; his grandson Pir Bedir was killed in the Seljuk siege of 1087, and the posthumously born Emir Bulduk, from whom the dynasty took its name, was raised by the tribe.

In the fifteenth century the Bulduqani married into the Aq Qoyunlu, as Dawlatshah's daughter wed Uzun Hasan, even though Dawlatshah's son Isa fought against him at the Battle on the Tigris in 1457.

The Safavids later seized the principality and lost it to the Ottoman sultan Selim I, under whom Eğil became a self-governing Kurdish emirate, exempt from the ordinary timar fief system.