Ridwan (place)
Ridwan or Redwan (also "Ridvan") was a place in the Ottoman Empire (in the Garzan area, south of Siirt in modern-day Turkey) that was inhabited by Yazidis. Alternative name. The American missionary Henry A. Homes gave the name "Yezidi Khan" as another name for Ridwan in the 19th century. History. Ridwan was an autonomous Yazidi principality in the 19th century. First the Yazidi prince Mirza Agha ruled over the area and lastly Seid Beg. A castle and a river in the region were also called as Ridwan. Population. The place was mainly inhabited by Yazidis, but a  few hundred Armenians also lived there. Prince Mirza Agha built a church in Ridwan for the Christian Armenian roommates. Massacre of the Yazidis in Ridwan. There were many armed conflicts between the Yazidis and the Muslim Kurds in Ridwan. Especially the Kurds of the Goyan tribe, who called themselves the "Knights of Islam", were hostile to the Yazidis. Once members of the Goyan tribe attacked a Yazidi caravan consisting of 1,500 unarmed horsemen and killed 500 of them. The Kurdish prince Bedir Khan Beg also carried out many massacres of the Yazidis. Some Yazidis have fled to Sheikhan and Sinjar