Polity Kingdom of Kurdistan

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A short-lived unrecognised state proclaimed in the city of Sulaymaniyah following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Establishment

  • October 1922: The Kingdom of Kurdistan was a short-lived unrecognised state proclaimed in the city of Sulaymaniyah following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Chronology

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1. Second Barzanji Revolt

Were a series of armed uprisings by Kurdish Sheykh Mahmud Barzanji against the Iraqi authority in newly conquered British Mesopotamia and later the British Mandate in Iraq.

  • October 1922: The Kingdom of Kurdistan was a short-lived unrecognised state proclaimed in the city of Sulaymaniyah following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
  • August 1924: With British forces greatly exceeding his in ammunition and training, the British finally subdued the Kingdom of Kurdistan to central British Iraqi rule in 1924.

Disestablishment

  • August 1924: With British forces greatly exceeding his in ammunition and training, the British finally subdued the Kingdom of Kurdistan to central British Iraqi rule in 1924.