Khan Mahmud was a 19th-century

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ish Lord. He was born in Müküs (now

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), and after his father Abdi Beg's death, he became

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of the Kurdish Emirate of Miks. In 1843 and 1846 he fought within an alliance with

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from

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and Nurullah Beg from

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against the Christian

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. The massacres caused by the alliance raised concerns around the foreign Christian missionaries and later were harshly criticized by diplomats from Europe and the United States. The Ottomans then tried to compel the alliance to surrender but the Ottomans were not persuasive enough. The Ottomans then fought the Kurdish alliance and Khan Mahmoud lost his post in 1846Suavi, Verheij; Jongerden, Verheij (ed.), (2012), pp. 37–38 and was exiled to

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(now a

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n city). Khan Mahmud died in Rousse in 1866.

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