Domboli

The Donboli were a Kurdish tribe, later Turkic-speaking, whose ruling family built a long-lived principality. Sharaf Khan Bidlisi derives them from Bohtan, where they were known as the Donbol-e Bokht; they were Yazidis before their chiefs converted to Islam. Emir Ibrahim Donboli, who died in 1320, stood well with Ilkhan Ghazan; his successors Cemşid and Behlül fought and made peace with the Mongols, and Behlül died in Hakkâri in 1359.

Shah Tahmasp I joined Sokmanabad to Khoy and enfeoffed Haji Beg with the district. After his murder in 1548 the tribe was bloodily subdued and fled into Ottoman territory, returning to Safavid allegiance in the early seventeenth century, when Khoy was restored to them.

They ruled the Khoy Khanate as hereditary khans, reaching their greatest power in the later eighteenth century before the Qajar prince Abbas Mirza abolished the khanate in 1799.