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Zayn al-Din Ali Kuchuk
Zayn al-Din Ali Kuchuk, son of Begtegin, was a Turkmen officer of the Zengid ruler Imad al-Din Zengi. From around 1144 he governed Erbil and other towns in northern Iraq and became the most powerful lord of the Zengid state of Mosul. He founded the Begteginid dynasty of Erbil, which his son Muzaffar al-Din Gökböri later ruled.
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