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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