Suwaydid

The Suwaydid were the Kurdish beys of the Emirate of Bingol, also called the Suveydi principality, around Capakcur in the Armenian highlands. Kurdish tribes settled there in the Ayyubid period founded the beylik in the 1240s.

Sharaf Khan Bidlisi recorded a legend that its emirs descended from the Barmakids and had ruled since the days of Harun al-Rashid. As vassals of the Mongols, the Kara Koyunlu and the Aq Qoyunlu, the Suwaydid kept their lands.

Early in the sixteenth century the Safavids captured Capakcur, but Emir Abdal Bey held Hancuk against them. After his death in 1510 his son Isfahan Bey succeeded him; following the battle of Chaldiran in 1514 the emirs became Ottoman vassals. The inheritance later split into Genc and Bingol, which fell under the Palu emirate in the early seventeenth century.