Abdullah Beg Benari

Abdullah Beg Benari was a Kurdish tribe leader, who lived 1880-1939. He was the son of Sheikh Jahangir, who was the son of Sultan Beg, who is mentioned below. A descendant of Bradostian Kurdish princes who fought in the battle of Dimdim Castle against the Iranian invasion by the Shah Abbas in 1609. He lived in the castle of Binar, which witnessed several battles between Local Princes of Bradost and the Iranian-Afshar army. Last one was the battle Mir Sultan Bradost and Amir Askar Afshar Urmia in 1841 (Actually 18 December 1856!). The Kurdish folklore is full of heroic stories narrated orally about Aola Begi Benare and his battles against the Persians and Russians.
The areas of the seven villages he was settled in Shaitanawa/ Doll south of Urmia. The Shah of Qajar captured him, took him to Zanjan, and sentenced him to death for his support of Simko Shikak's revolution in Urmia. But eventually he got free after efforts his relatives of his Afsharian wife. He formed a Kurdish cavalry against Russian troops when they invade Rawanduz, Iraqi Kurdistan in 1916. He witnessed the unrest of Urmiah between Kurds and Assyrians when Mar Shimun XXI Benyamin Catholic Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East had been assassinated by Simko Shikak, the Kurdish tribe leader, in March 1918. Abdullah Beg died in 1939 in Sidakan town, in the Bradost area, north of Rawanduz.