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Bedir Khan Beg
Bedir Khan Beg was the last mir of the Kurdish Emirate of Bohtan, ruling from Cizre. In the 1840s he extended his power across the region, and his forces massacred Assyrian Christians of Hakkari in 1843 and 1846. Ottoman troops defeated him in 1847 and exiled him, ending the emirate. His descendants, the Bedirxan family, became prominent in Kurdish nationalism.
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