Tag: Kilis

Kilis is a city in south-central Turkey, near the border with Syria, and the administrative centre of Kilis Province. During the Ayyubid era, the Kurdish dynasty of Mand, or Mantashah, commenced. Mand, who allegedly traced his ancestry back to Abbas, had initially been given control of Qusayr, thereafter also of Joum and Kilis. His descendants […]