Eruh

Eruh lies in the mountainous country east of Siirt, between the upper Tigris and the valleys of Botan. Its district belonged to a landscape of Kurdish principalities whose rulers held strongholds among the ridges. After a succession of regional powers, the area entered the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Sultan Selim I in the early sixteenth century. The valleys and steep hills around Eruh gave the settlements of this frontier their distinctive setting.