The Sanjâbi or Senjâwi (, fa, ایل سنجابی), is one of the biggest
Kurdish
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*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
tribes
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...
in
Kermanshah Province of
Iran
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and is also found in
Sulaymaniyah
Sulaymaniyah, also spelled as Slemani ( ku, سلێمانی, Silêmanî, ar, السليمانية, as-Sulaymāniyyah), is a city in the east of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, not far from the Iran–Iraq border. It is surrounded by the Azmar, G ...
in
Kurdistan Region
Kurdistan Region ( ku, هەرێمی کوردستان, translit=Herêmî Kurdistan; ar, إقليم كردستان), abbr. KRI, is an autonomous region in Iraq comprising the four Kurdish-majority governorates of Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Duhok ...
.
The Sanjabi dialect is a branch of
southern Kurdish
Southern Kurdish ( ku, کوردی باشووری ,کوردی خوارگ, Kurdî Başûrî, Kurdî Xwarig) is one of the dialects of the Kurdish language, spoken predominantly in northeastern Iraq and western Iran. The Southern Kurdish-speaking r ...
language family. They are notable for having played a leading role in the intertribal history of western Iran, protecting its borders against neighbouring powers—the
Russian
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*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
,
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, and especially the
Ottoman Empire
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.
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Karim Sanjabi
Karim Sanjabi ( fa, کریم سنجابی; 11 September 1905 – 4 July 1995) was an Iranian politician of National Front.
Early life
He was born in Kermanshah in September 1905 to the chief of the Kurdish Sanjâbi tribe. He studied law and ...
- chief of Sanjabi tribe in the last decades of 20th century and was a liberal political leader in
Iran
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Karim Sanjabi
Karim Sanjabi ( fa, کریم سنجابی; 11 September 1905 – 4 July 1995) was an Iranian politician of National Front.
Early life
He was born in Kermanshah in September 1905 to the chief of the Kurdish Sanjâbi tribe. He studied law and ...
, Hopes and Despairs: The Political Memoirs, London, 1989
* علی اکبر خان، سردار مقتدر سنجابی. ''ایل سنجابی و مجاهدتهای ملی ایران''. تحریر و تحشیه دکتر کریم سنجابی. تهران: نشر شیرازه، 1380
Kurdish tribes
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