Farawand was the name of a royal

Daylamite The Daylamites or Dailamites (Middle Persian: ''Daylamīgān''; fa, دیلمیان ''Deylamiyān'') were an Iranian people inhabiting the Daylam—the mountainous regions of northern Iran on the southwest coast of the Caspian Sea, now comprisin ...

clan roaming in

Dakhel Dakhel ( fa, داخل, also Romanized as Dākhel) is a village in Dehshal Rural District, in the Central District of Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh County, Gilan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also ca ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. A member of the clan, Khushkiya ibn Wijka, ruled as

King of the Gilites The King of the Gilites (also spelled King of the Jil/Gil) was a title used by the rulers of Dakhel and its surroundings. The kingdom was mostly ruled by the Gilite Shahanshahvand clan. Sources * * History of Gilan Iranian dynasties ...

in the early 10th-century.

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* History of Gilan Daylamite clans {{Iran-stub