According to Kurdish oral tradition the fortress was built in the pre-Islamic era.[2] The castle suffered an attack by
Safavid Empire and got sacked in 1609,[3] then rebuilt by the Amir Khan Lepzerin in the same year.[2] Other source mentioned that the siege of Dimdim Castle was in 1610.[1]
Name
The word "Dimdim" may be
onomatopoeic for the noise which the stones of the castle made when they dropped from the castle into the valley.[4]
^Allison, Christine (2010). "Kurdish Oral Literature". In Yarshater (ed.). Oral Literature of Iranian Languages.
Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 60.
Sources
Hassanpour, Amir (1995).
"Dimdim". In
Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume VII/4: Deylam, John of–Divorce IV. In modern Persia. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 404–405.
ISBN978-1-56859-022-6.