The region of
Beth Garmai (Syriac: ) in northern
Iraq, bounded by the
Little Zab and
Diyala Rivers and centered on the town of Karka d'Beth Slokh (Syriac: , modern
Kirkuk), was a metropolitan province of the
Church of the East between the fifth and fourteenth centuries. Several bishops and metropolitans of Beth Garmaï are mentioned between the fourth and fourteenth centuries, residing first at Shahrgard, then at Karka d'Beth Slokh, later at Shahrzur and finally at Daquqa. The known suffragan dioceses of the metropolitan province of Beth Garmaï included Shahrgard, Lashom , Khanijar, Mahoze d'Arewan , Radani, Hrbath Glal , Tahal and Shahrzur. The suffragan dioceses of 'Darabad' and 'al-Qabba', mentioned respectively by Eliya of Damascus and Mari, are probably to be identified with one or more of these known dioceses. The diocese of Gawkaï, attested in the eighth and ninth centuries, may also have been a suffragan diocese of the province of Beth Garmaï. The last known metropolitan of Beth Garmaï is attested in the thirteenth century, and the last known bishop in 1318, though the historian Amr continued to describe Beth Garmai as a metropolitan province as late as 1348. It is not clear when the province ceased to exist, but the campaigns of
Timur Leng between 1390 and 1405 offer a reasonable context.