Principality of Bitlis
Principality of Bitlis | |||||||||
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| 1182–1847 | |||||||||
| Status |
(1655–1847) | ||||||||
| Capital | Bitlis | ||||||||
| Common languages | Armenian Kurdish Persian (ruling class/elite, bureaucracy, chancery, literary, Sufis, mercantile, scholarly, madrasas, building inscriptions, gravestone inscriptions) | ||||||||
| Government | Principality | ||||||||
| Khan/Hakim | |||||||||
• 1578-1597 | Sharaf al-Din Bitlisi | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1182 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1847 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Bitlis Province | ||||||||
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The Principality of Bitlis, also known as the Bitlis Khanate, and the Bitlis Emirate (1182–1847), was a culturally Persianate Kurdish principality centered at Bitlis. It originated from the Rojaki (or Rozagî) tribal confederation.
Armenians constituted the overwhelming majority of the population of the principality and the cities within it.