Mahmudi Principality in Ottoman archival records

Hosab is a sub-district located in the southeast of Lake Van. In the Republican period, it was renamed as Güzelsu. The fact that it is located on the road of Van-Iran increases its importance. Nowadays, it is a town that does not develop much in administrative terms. I. Selim (Yavuz) (1512-1520), in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, the union tried to establish the battle with the Çaldıran in 1514. But this union, his son Suleyman I (1520-1566) in 1548 carried out in the II. The Iran Expedition. In the meantime, some local principalities were subject to the Ottoman Empire. These principalities were connected to the provinces of Van and Diyarbekir and managed their places as a sanjak center. The Mahmudî Principality, which was subject to the Ottoman Empire after 1548, showed great benefits in the war with the Safavids. This tribe, which was Yezidî until the 16th century, later became Sunni-Shafi'i by accepting the sect-al-Sunnah sect. In 1829, it was captured by Khan Mahmud the castle of Hosap, which was the center of the Mahmudî principality, was removed from the historical stage .Today there is no such a tribe with this name