Meyan Khatun

1874/1873, Ba'adra,[1] Ottoman Empire - died 1957[2][3]/1958,[4] Sinjar, Kingdom of Iraq) — Yazidi princess,[5] a regent[6] of Yezidi Emirate of Sheikhan in 1913-1957.

[4] Mayan was a daughter of the well known Yezidi prince Abdi Beg.

[5][8][7] She is said to have been an extraordinary personality and respected as the legal guardian of her son and later also of her grandson Tahsin Beg.

[7][9] In an event known as the Year of the General in the year 1892, the Ottoman general Omar Wehbi Pasha waged a military campaign against the Yazidi[10][11] and she and her husband, Mîr Ali Beg were sent to exile from which they only with difficulties could arrange their return.

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