Mahmud Barzanji
Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji or Mahmud Berzenji (1878 – October 9, 1956) was the leader of a series of Kurdish uprisings against the British Mandate of Iraq. He was sheikh of a Qadiriyah Sufi family of the Barzanji clan from the city of Sulaymaniyah, which is now in Iraqi Kurdistan. He twice proclaimed himself king of an independent Kurdish state.
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