Name: Ibrahim
Surname: Braim Agha Dzeyi
Year of Birth: 1840
Date of Death: #04-08-1920#
Place of Birth: Erbil
Place of Death: Erbil


$Biography$

Braim Agha was born in Erbil in the middle of the nineteenth century around 1840. He died on 1920-08-4

He resisted the Ottoman rule in his time. The British political governor of Erbil, W. R. A. says in his book Two Years in Kurdistan: “He was a skilled, intelligent, diplomatic and excellent speaker”. He made history at home because for 38 years during his father's reign he led a group of Kurds through Mount Karachugh and established Makhmur. There, after many years, the war between the Shammar Arabs and later the Turks succeeded in creating an entity for itself, transforming the Karachugh plain from a dry desert into a cultivated and prosperous plain. He and his brothers have about 30 villages and are the unrivaled chiefs of Dzayiis.In secret British documents, Braim Agha's role and influence is described as follows: Makhmur and Kandena were not used for agriculture and were only known as fertile pastures, but after 25 years Bayaz Agha thought about trying to use this new field for agriculture. After moving to Makhmur, he lived only one year, but this year was enough for Bayaz and his son Brahim to be sure that they had found land that was much more fertile than the tired land of Qushtapa. This favorable situation immediately attracted the attention of others and within a few years, about 100 villages went to Makhmur and 50 villages went to Kandena. Of the 376 villages in Erbil, 200 belong to Dzayii, 85 to other Kurdish tribes and the rest are Arabs. Hawar Agha Dzeyi, son of Braim Bayaz Agha, said: “My father rebuilt the Makhmur plain. He moved to Makhmur around 1850 He was eighteen to twenty years old. After the construction of Makhmur, my father lived with them for 15 years, but during that time he persuaded the Kurds to come and build houses in Makhmur and the surrounding hills. The Kurds were armed, so when my father found out there a
Were more Arabs in Makhmur and its surroundings. Immediately he set a deadline for the Arabs to leave Makhmur within 24 hours, otherwise, the Kurds will attack them and he told them if you do not go, they will kill you. He continued: “One night my father gathered all the Arab elders and told them that this kingdom is Kurdistan. Since then, all the Arabs have been expelled from Makhmur. Even now, the Kurdish leadership cannot do as much as my father did. Everyone knows that Braim Agha expelled all the Arabs across the river in 24 hours. So they gave my father beautiful girls to let them live there. My father had three Arab wives, one of whom was my mother, the daughter of the chief of the Tay tribe.[1]