A feud story about Ali Agha, son of Kelhan, his power around Karbegan, the trap set by Qasım Agha and Weşinli Hasan Agha, the killing of Ali Agha's family, and the burial of the dead.
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violence; death
Ali Agha; Qasım Agha; Weşinli Hasan Agha; Ahmed; Eysan; Mela Qasım; Ramedan Agha; Memed Agha; Hasan Kalan; Mela Resa.
This text reflects local power relations around Karbegan/Karabegan and Sivan/Servi. The 1870-1871 Diyarbakır salname mentions the Karabegan nahiye together with villages attached to Sivan, supporting a Palu-Genç/Servi historical geography for Karbegan. An 1849 Ottoman archival document cited by Nilay Özok-Gündoğan records Abdullah Beg's claim that the Weşin fire was set by the Karabegan tribe because of a long-standing enmity between Karabegan and Weşin. This does not independently prove who set the fire, but it shows that Karbegan-Weşin hostility was invoked in an official document in 1849 (Özok-Gündoğan 2022, 162; BOA.İ.MVL 139/3859, doc. no. 5, 13 February 1849). The story is published here as part of the Zaza material Lerch collected from prisoners of war in Roslavl in 1856.
The names Narbêş, Syeraçur, Desmun, Merzyelê, and Ğêytê show the local geography of the narrative; the Karbegan/Karabegan and Sivan/Servi connection is also supported by outside sources.
Lerch, Peter Ivanovich. Izsledovaniia ob iranskikh kurdakh i ikh predkakh, severnykh khaldeiakh. Vol. 1. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1856. Text 3, Ali Agha narrative, printed pp. 99-102.
Pages: Russian RGO viewer images 113-116; printed pp. 99-102.
Primary scan witness for Lerch's Zazaki transcription and Russian free translation; the Russian scan prints only the heading '3.' for this text.
Lerch, Peter. Forschungen über die Kurden und die iranischen Nordchaldäer. Abth. 1. St. Petersburg: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1857. Story 'Ali Agha, der Sohn Kelhän's,' pp. 61-65.
Pages: Internet Archive scan pages n104-n108; printed pp. 61-65.
Used for the German free translation and as a second scan witness for the Zazaki transcription.
Aslanoğulları, Mehmet. Lerch'in Zazaki Derlemelerinin Çevrimyazımı ve Türlerine Göre Sözcüklerin Tahlili. Master's thesis, Bingöl Üniversitesi, 2014.
Pages: PDF pp. 47-50; story heading "Meselê Eli Ağay Laci Kelxoni Qerbegoni."
Secondary transcription witness used during alignment and review. The transcription text is cited here but is not reproduced in the Interlinear view.