Marwanids (Diyar Bakr)
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This article is about the Kurdish dynasty. For the branch of the Umayyad dynasty, see Umayyad Caliphate.
The Marwanids or Dustakids (983/990-1085, Kurdish: میرنشینی مەڕوانی یان میرنشینی دۆستەکی) were a Kurdish Sunni Muslim dynasty in the Diyar Bakr region of Upper Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq/southeastern Turkey) and Armenia, centered on the city of Amid (Diyarbakır).
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Marwanid dynasty | |||||||||||||||||
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983/990–1084 | |||||||||||||||||
Capital | Amid | ||||||||||||||||
Spoken languages | Kurdish (mother tongue)[1] Arabic (poetry/numismatics)[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Religion | Sunni Islam (official) | ||||||||||||||||
Government | Emirate | ||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||
• Established | 983/990 | ||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1084 | ||||||||||||||||
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