Jwamer Aga, was the head of the
Kurdish tribe of
Hamawand during the late nineteenth century
Ottoman era, Jwamer was given the governorship of the Zuhab district after the overthrow of its hereditary ruling family the
Bajalan.[1] Jwamer which means one who is descented from
nobility or is noble.[2]
Jwamer was assassinated in 1888 after he rebelled against the
Persians.[3] Jwamer held the Persian forces at
Qasr-e Shirin for two months.[4]
George Nathaniel Curzon notes that Jwamer was invited to a meeting with Tehran's emissary, where he was slain.[5] Jwamer is considered an early Kurdish nationalist figure by the citizens of the
Kurdistan Region, A village was named in his honour in the northernmost part of the Kifri district in the
Diyala Province.
Former
KDP Secretary General
Ibrahim Ahmad named the main character in his famed nationalistic novel Jani Gal in reference to Jwamer[6]
^Bengio, Ofra (2014). Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland. U.S.A: University of Texas Press. p. 131.
ISBN978-0292763012.
References
Ehsan Yar-Shater Encyclopaedia Iranica Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2003
ISBN978-0-939214-75-4
Cecil John Edmonds "Kurds, Turks, and Arabs: politics, travel, and research in north-eastern Iraq, 1919-1925" Oxford University Press, 1957
ISBN978-0-404-18960-0
Yona Sabar "A Jewish Neo-Aramaic dictionary" Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2002
ISBN3-447-04557-4