Brokan or Broki Clan
Is one of the Ancient Kurdish Clans, like other Kurdish clans the faced so many situations and fights during the Ottomans Empire but still survived ,and Brokan Clan Until the early 17th century AD, lived in Swerk Qara Dagh Northern Kurdistan but Because of the disputes and fights between the Brokan clan and the Ottomans empire, the Brokan clan migrated from the Swerk Qara Dagh region Northern Kurdistan , and their leader at the time was Shamdin Beg. During migration, they were divided into two parts, one of which migrated to the neighborhood of Yerevan - Baku, and Another section of Brokan Clan migrated to Mako-Khoe in eastern Kurdistan, Iran, and In the 1919, some of them returned to the vicinity of the city of Van, Northern Kurdistan and their number in the city of Van was about 20,000 Twenty Thousand people. And Brokan clan peoples speaks Kurdish/Badini and Kurmanji, And Brokan clan was a part of the Ayyubi army and Partcipated in some fights with Ayyubi Army, and This clan currently resides in western Kurdistan, Northern Kurdistan, #Armenia#, Eastern Kurdistan, And also #Kazakhstan#. And In the book “Dictionary of Countries” by Yaqut Al-Hamawi, we come across the name Brokan for two towns, the first is located in Khorasan and the second is near the city of Erbil, and we do not know whether the names of the two towns have anything to do with this clan or not. [1] [2]