Abdullah Pasha Bajalan was the third Kurdish hereditary governor of the Pashlik of Zohab and chief of the Bajalan tribe during the mid-1700s.
In the spring of 1754, he fought against Karim Khan Zand when the latter occupied the Kermanshah region. In late 1775, Nazar Ali Khan Zand, who had been dispatched by Karim Khan to reestablish Zand hegemony over Kurdistan, defeated Abdullah near Khanaqin, slaughtering 2,000 of his men and seizing 120,000 head of livestock.[1]
Abdullah built a guard station in Kalai Selzi.[2]
Claudius James Rich notes that near the tomb Hafez in Shiraz lies buried Abdullah Pasha of Zohab who died whilst on a mission to Kerim Khan.[3]
References edit
- ^ Yar-Shater, Ehsan (1988). Encyclopaedia iranica, Volume 3, Issues 5-8. University of California: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 532.
- ^ Rich, Claudius James (1836). Narrative of a residence in Koordistan, and on the site of ancient Nineveh. UK: Oxford University. p. 263.
- ^ Rich, Claudius James (1839). Narrative of a journey to the site of Babylon in 1811: with narrative of a journey to Persepolis. UK: Duncan and Malcolm. p. 267.
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