English Explanatory Dictionary

Hamadiye

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Well-armed, irregular, mainly Sunni Kurdish cavalry formations that operated in the southeastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire.

Word forms

Hamadiye Hamidieh

Etymology

Established in 1891 by Sultan Abdul Hamid II and named after him.

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