27 Facts About Yazidis

The majority of Yazidis remaining in the Middle East today live in Iraq, primarily in the governorates of Nineveh and Duhok.

Since the spread of Islam began with the early Muslim conquests of the 7th–8th centuries, Yazidis have faced persecution by Arabs and later by Turks, as their religious practices have commonly been charged with heresy by Muslim clerics.

However, all Yazidis reject any relationship between their name and the caliph.

Yazidis went on to become the head of the Bashiqa-Bahzani and in later stages of his life, the Governor of Mosul.

Yazidis describes that this place did not pay Jizya or poll tax and that it was considered the Abode of War.

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One of the largest attacks took place in 1844, when Bedirkhan sent a large army to force Yazidis into accepting Islam, those who refused were captured and killed.

Yazidis was put in chains with his family and eventually transferred to Constantinople.

Yazidis took the initiative of completing his tasks through violence due to the lack of cooperation from Yezidis.

Yazidis later became the right-hand man and lieutenant of Ibrahim Pasha, the powerful chieftain of Milan confederacy and highly regarded by the Sultan Abdulhamid.

Some modern Yazidis identify as a subset of the Kurdish people while others identify as a separate ethno-religious group.

Some traditional myths of the Yazidis tell that the Yazidis were the children of Adam alone and not of Eve, and thus separate from the rest of humanity.

Yazidis distinguish the name of their community from the name of their religion according the phrase:.

Yazidis are regarded as ethnic Kurds in Georgia and Germany.

Yazidis indicates his nationality as Kurdish, but specifies that they are Yezidi by religion:.

Soviet Yazidis were able to establish the first Kurdish theatre and radio station in history, in addition, the first Kurdish Latin-based alphabet was created by the Yazidi intellectual, Erebe Semo, who was responsible for writing the first-ever Kurmanji novel in 1929 titled "Sivane Kurmanca".

Traditionally, Yazidis who marry non-Yazidis are considered to have converted to the religion of their spouse.

Historically, the Yazidis lived primarily in communities located in present-day Iraq, Turkey, and Syria and had significant numbers in Armenia and Georgia.

In 2009, some Yazidis who had previously lived under the Arabisation process of Saddam Hussein complained about the political tactics of the Kurdistan Region that were intended to make Yazidis identify themselves as Kurds.

On 16 June 2015, Yazidis celebrated the opening of the Sultan Ezid Temple and cultural centre, named after Sultan Ezid in Varketili, a suburb of Tbilisi.

Community of Yazidis have settled as refugees in the United States of America and Canada.

Yazidis is portrayed as a kind, peaceful character with a broad knowledge of religion and mythology.

Yazidis is depicted as conservative, ethical, and highly principled in family life.

Yazidis was able to learn only a little about the nature of their religion: she thought it very ancient, and concerned with angels.

Yazidis describes a mountain-top Yazidi shrine as "a small rock building with objects dangling from the ceiling" and alcoves for the placement of offerings.

Yazidis reported that local Muslims considered the Yazidis to be devil worshippers.

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Some Yazidis were later escorted back to Iraqi Kurdistan by Peshmerga and YPG forces, Kurdish officials have said.

In October 2014, the United Nations reported that more than 5,000 Yazidis had been murdered and 5,000 to 7,000 had been abducted by ISIL.