found: Work cat.: 2004635250: Kıran, E. Kürt Mılan Aşiret konfederasyonu, 2003.
found: EI2:v. 6, p. 2016 (article: Mākū: Semi-nomadic Kurds of the khanate of Mākū [Iran], the Milān live between the Araxes and the massif of Soḳḳar, where they pass the summer)
found: Bruinessen, M. Agha, shaikh and state, 1992:p. 187 (Ibrahim Pasha, chief of the large Milan confederation ... at the end of the 19th cent., the Milan consisted of a fluctuating number of tribes (including, besides Sunni Kurdish, a few Arab and Yezidi Kurdish tribes), grouped around a small nucleus of Milan proper. There were fortified headquarters at Viranşehir; most of the tribes were nomadic in the provinces of Urfa and Raqqa ... According to legend all present Kurdish tribes originated from 2 primordial tribes, Mil and Zil (or Milan and Zilan))
found: McDowall, D. A modern history of the Kurds, 1996:p. 16 (the Milan-Zilan dichotomy; imagined origins 2 or more millenia ago, between 2 ancient groups, called Zilan and Milan, an apparent equivalent to the Qays-Yamani dichotomy among Syrian Arab tribes)
