Donboli

Donboli (Persian دنبلى, "Donbolī" and sometimes "Danabele") are a Turkic-speaking sub-ethnic group of Kurds originality in the Khoy khanate and Tabriz khanate regions of West Azarbaijan Province of Iran.

The Donboli came from Bokhtan, a Kurdish region between Siirt and Cizre in what is now southeastern Turkey. The first ancestor was a certain Isa Beg, who became in 1378 ruler of Sokmanabad. His descendant Sheikh Ahmad Beg entered service of the Turkmen Aq Quyunlu, and then the family held several post in Persian administration. Ahmad Beg's son Hajji Beg (Hajji Soltan) was governor of Sokmanabad and Khoy under Tahmasp I of the Safavid dynasty who ruled as Shah of Persia 1501-1722. In 1530 the Donboli family could establish a semi-autonomous emirate in that area, including the regions of Churs, Salmas. In the time of Shah Abbas I the family spread into a line in Churs and in Khoy, sometimes fighting for superpower over the other. After the fall of the Safavid dynasty the Donboli governors became in 1736 the hereditary Khans of Khoy and Tabriz. The Doboli clan reigned the Khoy Khanate as well as the Tabriz Khanate as semi-independent rulers for nearly fifty years between the death of Nader Shah Afshar in 1747 and the coronation of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar in 1796. They allied as well with three succeeding ruling houses, the Afshar dynasty, Zand dynasty and Qajar dynasty of Persia.

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