 This is the area Tigrans family/clan was supposed to have dominated prior to its rise to the Armenian throne.The Bakran tribe has given its name to the city of Diyarbakır, also engendered the Bagratid royal house, which ruled intermittently, first over the Armenians and later over the Georgians, with major interruptions from the 9th through the beginning of the 19th century.The original domain of the early Bagratids was in fact the area of Diyarbakır to Bingöl in northwest Kurdistan, according to Tergewondian.