Kurdish tribes governed the region from the late 11th century till the early 13th century.
Also worth mentioning are the other Kurdish tribes, whom the Nochiyaye shared their vast territory with, clockwise from Nochiya: The Nehri (central), The Khumara (north), who are relatives to Bagzadeh and were most powerful kurdish tribes from 15th century until 1870, The Zarza (south-east), The Bradost (south), The Gardi (south-west), The Barzan (south-west), The Herki Banaji (west) and The Oramar (north-west).
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The first of the major Barzani revolts took place in 1931 after Barzani, one of the most prominent Kurdish leaders in Northern Iraq, and succeeded in defeating a number of other Kurdish tribes.
This comprised most of the upper basin of the Great Zab, with the country of the Nestorian Christians and many districts inhabited by Kurdish tribes, some of them large nomad tribes who descended for the winter to the plains of the Tigris.