Dimdim Castle (Kurdish: قەڵای دمدم, romanized: Qelay Dimdim, Persian: قلعه دمدم) was a Kurdish fortress located on top of Mount Dimdim in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran, just west of Lake Urmia.[1] This fortress was the location of Battle of Dimdim.
According to Kurdish oral tradition the fortress was built in the pre-Islamic era.[2] The castle suffered an attack by Safavid Empire and got sacked in 1609,[3] then rebuilt by the Amir Khan Lepzerin in the same year.[2] Other source mentioned that the siege of Dimdim Castle was in 1610.[1]
^ abMelville, Charles, ed. (25 February 2021). Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires: The Idea of Iran. Vol. 10. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 67. ISBN 9780755633791. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
^ abHassanpour 1995, pp. 404–405.
^Allison, Christine; Kreyenbroek, Philip, eds. (1996). Kurdish Culture and Identity. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 31. ISBN 9781856493291. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
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