Note 12 — Chapter XXIV · STATISTICAL AND POLITICAL

Consul Taylor, in alluding to the Kurds of the tableland, has written to the following effect: “The Kurds inhabiting the Erzerum districts, with the exception of the Hakkiari, were originally immigrants from the vicinity of Diarbekr; and there is only one tribe, the Mamakanlu—said to be descended from the Armenian Mamikoneans—who are natives of the soil.” ↑