The Yazidi Khalidiya clan
The Khaldiya clan or the Khalta today is called a clan, but before the Gregorian date, the Khalta were a Yezidi nation and a great people who inhabited the Lake Van area in northern Kurdistan and the outskirts of Mount Ararat. ) their capital, and the borders of the Khaltani kingdom and the Khaltani government expanded north to Lake Kokja in the Caucasus, from the west to the Euphrates River, and from the south to Rawanduz and the headwaters of the Zab River. The era of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser IV 782--772 BC and the Yezidi Minwas the Khalti conquered the Khalti, and sometimes the Assyrians triumphed until Tiglab Plesser III and the leaders of the powerful Assyrian army appeared and defeated the government of Ararat and the Khaltanis, where the Khalti people were dispersed and torn apart, despite the Khalti's deadly defense of their country of origin Urartu until the end of the reign of the famous Sennacherib. Writer Major Melinken says in his book Searching for the Nestorians that the Chaldeans, in terms of blood and race, belong to the people of the Khalti people whose ancestors lived in the Hakkari mountains. He also says that Xenophon marched with Khosrow II on this people and told this king that these mountains The Hakkaria that you see is the mountains of the Khaltanis and even the current Nestorians, and to this day they claim themselves to be the descendants of the Khaltiya clan, as Dr. Sheikh Khalil Jundi touched in his book The Yazidi Religion something about the history of the Khalda clan and their rulers and the struggle between them and the Assyrians, as the historian and orientalist At Olmsted touched in his book ((History Assyria)) in an adequate way about the Yazidi tribes of Khaltia, and also the mention of the Khaltia people came in the Torah and the Old Testament Bible in the fourth chapter, verses 6 and 7, as for the meaning of the Khaltia clan, it is relative to their grandfather, Khalat Adyan, which means Khak, Khawl, or Kholi, and everyone means dirt ((( earth)) or mud, or that the Khalat people made a clay statue of their oldest grandfather ((Khalat)),[1] [2]