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Meyan Khatun
Mira Meyan Khatun or ''Mayan Khatun'' ( ku, Meyan Xatûn; born. 1874/1873, Ba'adra, Ottoman Empire - died 1957''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies'' Volume 72, Issue 2 Shahrzad Mojab, ''Women of a non-state nation: the Kurds'', pg. 102/1958, Sinjar, Kingdom of Iraq) — Yazidi princess,Wadie Jwaideh, ''The Kurdish national movement: its origins and development'', pg. 45 a regent of Yezidi Yazidis or Yezidis (; ku, ئێزیدی, translit=Êzidî) are a Kurmanji-speaking endogamous minority group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The ma ... Emirate of Sheikhan in 1913-1957. Lokman I. Meho, ''The Kurds and Kurdistan: a selective and annotated bibliography'', pg. 235 Life Mayan was a daughter of the well known Yezidi prince Abdi Beg. She was the wife of Mir Ali Beg, mother of Mir Sa'id Beg John S. Guest ''The Yezidis: a study in survival'' and a grandmother of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Meyan Khatun
Mira (), designation Omicron Ceti (ο Ceti, abbreviated Omicron Cet, ο Cet), is a red-giant star estimated to be 200–400 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Cetus. ο Ceti is a Binary star, binary stellar system, consisting of a variable red giant (Mira A) along with a white dwarf companion (Mira B). Mira A is a pulsating variable star and was the first non-supernova variable star discovered, with the possible exception of Algol. It is the prototype of the Mira variables. Nomenclature ο Ceti (Romanization of Greek, Latinised to ''Omicron Ceti'') is the star's Bayer designation. It was named Mira (Latin for 'wonderful' or 'astonishing') by Johannes Hevelius in his ''Historiola Mirae Stellae'' (1662). In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
