Marwanid dynasty (Diyar Bakr)
Marwanid Emirate | |||||||||||||||||
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| 983/990–1085 | |||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Mayyafariqin | ||||||||||||||||
| Spoken languages | Kurdish (mother tongue) Arabic (poetry/numismatics) | ||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam (official) | ||||||||||||||||
| Government | Emirate | ||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||
• Established | 983/990 | ||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1085 | ||||||||||||||||
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The Marwanid dynasty, also known as the Dustakids, (983/990-1085, Kurdish: میرنشینی مەڕوانی/ میرنشینی دۆستەکی) were a Kurdish Sunni Muslim dynasty in the Diyar Bakr region of Upper Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey), centered on the city of Mayyafariqin.