Piran is a Kurdish tribe located in
Iran, but also
Iraq,
Afghanistan, and
Turkmenistan.
History
The Piran tribe has an ancient history. Part of the Piran tribe migrated to modern-day
Afghanistan,
Turkmenistan, and
Iranian Khorasan during the transfer of
Kurds from
Western Iran and eastern
Iraq during the Safavid period to defend against Uzbek and Mongol invasions. The Piran tribe lives in
Piranlu,
Piranshahr,
Sarpol-e Zahab
Sarpol-e Zahab ( fa, سرپل ذهاب, ''Sarpole Zahâb''; ku, Serpêllî Zehaw, ; also romanized as Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb, Sar-e Pol-e Z̄ahāb, and Sar-ī-Pūl Zūhāb; also known as Pol-e Z̄ahāb, Sarpole-Zahab, Pol-e Z̄ohāb, Sarī-Pūl, and ...
,
Kermanshah,
Dehloran, and
Ilam in
Iran, and
Amarah in southern Iraq. The Piran tribe speaks various
Kurdish dialects
Kurdish (, ) is a language or a group of languages spoken by Kurds in the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. Kurdish constitutes a dialect continuum, belonging to Western Iranian languages in the Indo-European language ...
depending on area, and they follow
Islam
Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...
.
[کریمی، بهمن، راههای باستانی و پایتختهای قدیمی غرب ایران، تهران، ۱۳۲۹ش]
See also
*
Kurdish tribes
References
{{Kurdish tribes
Kurdish tribes
Iranian Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan