Dimdim Castle (Kurdish: قەڵای دمدم, romanized: Qelay Dimdim, Persian: قلعه دمدم) was a Kurdish fortress located on top of Mount Dimdim in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran, just west of Lake Urmia.[1] This fortress was the location of the Battle of Dimdim.
| Dimdim Castle | |
|---|---|
قلعه دمدم | |
| Mount Dimdim in Iran | |
| Coordinates | 37°23′26.1″N 45°10′57.77″E / 37.390583°N 45.1827139°E |
According to Kurdish oral tradition the fortress was built in the pre-Islamic era.[2] The castle suffered an attack by the Safavid Empire and was 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
editThe 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]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Melville, Charles, ed. (25 February 2021). Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires: The Idea of Iran. Vol. 10. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 67. ISBN 9780755633791. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- ^ a b Hassanpour 1995, pp. 404–405.
- ^ Allison, Christine; Kreyenbroek, Philip, eds. (1996). Kurdish Culture and Identity. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 31. ISBN 9781856493291. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- ^ Allison, Christine (2010). "Kurdish Oral Literature". In Yarshater (ed.). Oral Literature of Iranian Languages. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 60.
Sources
edit- 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. ISBN 978-1-56859-022-6.
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