Chegini Kurds

Chegini Kurds[1] (Kurdish: چەگینی ,Çengînî‎, Persian: چگنی‎) are a mostly sedentary[2] Kurdish[3] tribe who live in Loristan Province and scattered around Qazvin Province and Fars Province in Iran. The tribe also has a presence in Kurdistan Region and Kirkuk.[1][4]

A 2003 CIA Factbook map which includes the Chegini north of Sulaymaniyah

Not much information exists on the origins of the tribe, but Oskar Mann argued in 1910 that the tribe was of Romani origin but had gone through a process of Kurdification after migrating to Kurdistan from northwestern Iran.[5] Prior to that, Charles MacGregor classified the tribe as ethnic Kurdish in his topographical and ethnographical oeuvre from 1872.[6]

During the reign of Tahmasp I, the Chegini Kurds settled in Khorasan as they were on their way to India. In Khorasan, they prospered under the protection of the shah. In 1597, Sharafkhan Bidlisi wrote that the tribe lived by brigandage and intercepting the roads. Moreover, unlike other Kurdish tribes, they had no emir or mirza which could lead the tribe.[7]

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References
  1. "ČEGĪNĪ". Iranicaonline. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
  2. Ehsan Yarshater (1992). Encyclopaedia Iranica. University of California. p. 110.
  3. Bagher Ali Adelfar, Fatemeh Malehmir Chegini (2016). "An investigation into the role of Chegini tribe in the first period of Safavid era (1523 AD-1578 AD/930 HQ-986 HQ)". Ponte Academic Journal. 72 (12). doi:10.21506/j.ponte.2016.12.18.
  4. Archibald Roosevelt (1944). "Kurdish tribal map of Iraq : showing the Iraq portion of Kurdistan and the major Kurdish tribal divisions within Iraq". Yale University.
  5. Oskar Mann (April 1910). Die mundarten der lur-stmme im sdwestlichen persien (in German). Berlin: DE GRUYTER MOUTON. p. xxiv. ISBN 3111071219.
  6. Charles MacGregor (1872). Central Asia. Part V. A contribution towards the better knowledge of the History, Ethnography, Topography, and resources of part of Asiatic Turkey and Caucasia. Calcutta: Foreign Department Press. p. 591.
  7. François-Bernard Charmoy (1873). Chèrefnameh: ou, Fastes de la nation kourde (in French). Oxford University - Commissionnaires de l'Académie impériale dessciences. pp. 189–191.

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