Rawadid dynasty
Years: 955 - 1071
Rawwadid or Ravvadid (also Revend or Revendi) (955–1071), is a Kurdish principality ruling Iranian Azerbaijan from the tenth to the early eleventh centuries, centered on Tabriz and Maragheh.
According to Minorsky and Bosworth, the Rawadids were originally from Arab ancestry, and arrived in the region in the mid eighth century, but they had become Kurdicized by the early tenth century and began to use Kurdish forms like Mamlan for Muhammad and Ahmadil for Ahmad as their names.
The Rawandid tribe moved into Kurdistan in the mid eighth century, and it was known as a Kurdish tribe by the tenth century.
