Hadhabani
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Hadhabani was an 11th century Kurdish
Kurdish people
The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

 tribe centered at Ushnu
Oshnavieh
Oshnavieh is a city in and the capital of Oshnavieh County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 29,896, in 6,572 families....

. Their dominion included surrounding areas of Maragha and Urmia to the east, Salmas to the north and parts of Arbil
Arbil
Arbil / Hewlêr is the fourth largest city in Iraq after Baghdad, Basra and Mosul...

 and Mosul
Mosul
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 to the west.

About 10th century they gradually immigrated northward to the areas around lake Urmia with Ushnu as their summer capital. They ruled the area for a while but later split to a few branchs who spread across Azerbaijan (at times Turks still had not invaded Azerbaijan), and Caucasus
Caucasus
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. Saladin
Saladin
Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb , better known in the Western world as Saladin, was an Arabized Kurdish Muslim, who became the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria, and founded the Ayyubid dynasty. He led Muslim and Arab opposition to the Franks and other European Crusaders in the Levant...

the renowned Muslim ruler was descendant of one of Hadhabani branchs.
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