Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Posts about Hewlêr
Captain Hay states in his book that all inhabitants of the Hewlêr district are Kurds, with the exception of a few residents in the city, as well as some Christians in Ain Kawa, Shaqlawa, Koysinjaq, and residents of certain villages in Shamamik and Qarah Chogh. Furthermore, those who have visited the Makhmour district know well that the area between the two Rabins (Big and Small) is entirely inhabited by the Kurdish tribe of Dezayis. The population of this region, estimated at 30,000 people in Captain Hay's time, should now be greater than that during the census of 1349 AH (1930 CE).
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Manuscript of the poem "Anusherwan Zarir Baghdadi on the Kurds and the city of Hewlêr.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
The population of Hewlêr is mostly Kurdish.
Detailed geography; Mamâlik-i Devlet-i Osmaniyye / Ali Sâib, 1304 Hijri.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Addai Sher (died 1916), a prominent Chaldean Catholic archbishop, in his book Tārīkh Kaldū wa-Āthūr (1912), for which he translated many ancient Syriac texts into Arabic, mentioned the Kurds or City of the Kurds in Hewlêr region in 2nd century several times.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Yaqut al-Hamawi visited Hewlêr and wrote, "Everyone in the city and its countryside is Kurdish."
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
In 1213 AD, Ibn Saadi stated that Hewlêr was the capital of the Kurds' country.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Didier Robert de Vaugondy 1753
According to this map, the borders of Kerkûk, Hewlêr, Sherizor, Cizîr, Van, Botan, Amedi, Hekari, Bedlîs, Sêrt, Mûş and Mûsil are considered Kurdistan.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
This map is the Ottoman Map of 1730 by "Johann Baptist Homann".
Mûsil, Kerkûk, Sehrizor, Van, Bedlîs, Sêrt, Hewlêr, Botan, Cizîr etc. While it is considered to be from the "Kurdistan" province.
The area between Bazid and Van is also called "Curdorum".
Curdorum regio : The region where Kurds are located/live.
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
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Posted by Median Library contributor · 8 September 2024
This explains why Kurds call Arbel “Hewlêr”, and why the name is legitimate. Its author, Geoffrey Khan, is a linguist and philologist of Semitic languages who has held the post of Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge.
Posted by Median Library contributor · Found by Roj · 11 October 2024
An Andalusian scholar in awe of 1228 CE Hewlêr.
al-Fath Abu Nasr bin Musa the Umayyad was a distinguished master of many arts.
Fate would have him 5000 miles away from his birthplace in Hawler, which was at the time a booming city of the era under al-Muzzafar of the Ayyubids.
He composed the following lines of poetry in praise of the city recorded by Ibn ash-Sha‘ar when the two met in Hewlêr:
“O Irbil, you are not but a paradise
distinguished by most chivalrous of guardians and tranquility.
If you were not a wordly paradise,
the path to you...
would not have been Beth Nar.
Her Sultan being the glorified Malik, [great is his] worth
in the heart of every esteemed mighty.
With God for her glory is enough,
that she glorifies the birthday of the chose one, Ahmad.
...”
Notably, the poet had seen Córdoba, then the jewel of Europe.
(*) Beth Nar (lit. "House of Fire") was a town on the way to Hewlêr, it's compared to the path (صرات) -which goes through the Fire- to Heavenly Paradise.
A poem written by an Andalusian scholar for the city of Hewlêr under Ayyubid rule.
Posted by Zagrosian · Found by Median Library contributor · 2 June 2025
Hewlêr under Ayyubid rule
Posted by Zagrosian · 2 June 2025