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Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Marwan
Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Marwan was the founder of Marwanid rule in Diyar Bakr, in what is now south-eastern Turkey. A nephew of the Kurdish chief Badh, he took over his uncle's lands after Badh was killed in 990 and defeated the Hamdanids. He was killed in Amid in 997, and his brothers continued the dynasty, named after their father Marwan.
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