Zraqi

The Zraqi were the ruling house of the Kurdish Principality of Zirqan, whose emirs claimed descent from the sheikh Hassan Zerraki. In 1335 his descendant Zeydo seized Boğat Castle near Silvan and founded the principality north of Mardin.

It reached its height under the Aq Qoyunlu, whose sultan Uzun Hasan married a Zirqan emir's daughter in 1483 and entrusted the family with Bitlis; the Safavids overran most of its lands in 1507.

After the battle of Chaldiran in 1514 the Zirqan emirs made their pact with Selim I and ruled as autonomous Ottoman vassals, leaving mosques and other buildings across their districts, including Gürdükan. Gürdükan passed to Bitlis in 1709, and when the dynasty rebelled in 1830 the Ottomans crushed it in 1835 and exiled its family to Edirne.