"دليل بلاد فارس. مجلد II" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٥] (٧٠٦/٢٧٤)

JALALIS
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JALALlS—
When Tahmuras Khan-ruled over Gurjistan, seven clans of Kurds
inhabited the country about Erivan and Nakjivan, numbering in all 16,000
tents, and called by the name of Jalall. When Shah ’Abbas took Gurjis
tan he settled the Jalalls at certain places on the frontier. The chief of
all the clans was a certain Pasha Khan Saiyid. One of the clans, the
Misri Kanlu, was established at or near Erivan, from whom is descended
the present chief of Maku. 178 years ago, in the time of Nadir Shah,
Mustafa Sultan was Governor of Maku ; he rebelled and was killed, and
Ahmad Shah, chief of the Misri Kanlu, was appointed in his place.
From him dates the history of the family which has continued to give chiefs
to Maku to the present day. The Maku Jalalis number some 920 tents
divided into seven clans. The following gives the tribe in detail :—-
(Murtazd Quit Khan.)
Clans.
Families or tents.
1. KhSna Kanlu ..
..
300
2. Birka Kanlu
..
150
3. Misrx Kanlu
..
100
4. Khundl Kanlu ..
..
..
20
5. Gin! Kanlu
..
•.
20
6. Kizil Bash Ogli
..
• •
250
7. Sakhanlix
..
••
80
Total
920
Like all Kurds they have both summer and winter quarters, migrating
from one neighbourhood to another as the seasons advance and the con
ditions of grazing change. The winter quarters of the tribe extend from
Tarim (Janin) Gaia, a village under Mount Agri Dagh (Ararat) and close
to the Turkish frontier—to Kizilwang, a village on the Aras, a few miles
east of ’Abbasabad. Between these areas they graze their sheep and cattle
and live, as a rule, in underground excavations lightly covered over with
brushwood and earth, sometimes occupying natural caverns, manv of which
exist in the volcanic region round about Mount Ararat. The summer grazing
lands extend all over the high plateau of Awajik and westward to Abagail
in Turkey. During the summer they live entirely in their nomad tents.
As a people, the Persian Jalalis form a small section of the large tribe of
that name found in the Bayazid and Abagaia districts of Turkey, with
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