Shaddadids
951–1199 Kurdish Muslim dynasty in Armenia and Azerbaijan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Shaddadids were a Kurdish Sunni Muslim dynasty.[lower-alpha 1][4][3] who ruled in various parts of Armenia and Arran from 951 to 1199 AD. They were established in Dvin. Through their long tenure in Armenia, they often intermarried with the Bagratuni royal family of Armenia.[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3]
Shaddadids | |||||||||||||
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951–1199 | |||||||||||||
Capital | Dvin, Janza,[1] Ani | ||||||||||||
Common languages | Persian (court, poetry)[2] | ||||||||||||
Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||||||
Government | Emirate | ||||||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||
• Established | 951 | ||||||||||||
951 | |||||||||||||
971 | |||||||||||||
c. 1072 | |||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1199 | ||||||||||||
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They began ruling in the city of Dvin, and eventually ruled other major cities, such as Barda and Ganja. A cadet line of the Shaddadids were given the cities of Ani and Tbilisi[6] as a reward for their service to the Seljuqs, to whom they became vassals.[7][8] From 1047 to 1057, the Shaddadids were engaged in several wars against the Byzantine army. The area between the rivers Kura and Aras was ruled by a Shaddadid dynasty.