Begzada

Social status

The Begzada as a caste developed in Kurdistan among some of the chief tribes and householders such as those of the Jaffs, Khoshnaws, Feylis Berwaris and the Bayat Begzade family descendants . Begzade formed the dominant class of the tribe or household. They did not intermarry with socially inferior tribespeople; however, a member of the Begzade could be part of the caste both by kinship ties to the ruling lineage and as one of their retainers. Although regarded as Kurds, the Begzade come from an ethnically mixed background, as most of them have Circassian origins.