Salas-e Babajani County ( fa, شهرستان ثلاث باباجانی; Salasi Bawajani ( ku, شارستانی سەلاسی باوەجانی) is located in

Kermanshah Kermanshah ( fa, کرمانشاه, Kermânšâh ), also known as Kermashan (; romanized: Kirmaşan), is the capital of Kermanshah Province, located from Tehran in the western part of Iran. According to the 2016 census, its population is 946,68 ...

province,

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. The capital of the county is Tazehabad. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 37,056, in 7,734 households. Retrieved 1 November 2022 At the 2016 census, the county's population was 35,219, in 9,270 households.

Administrative divisions

History

Darneh/Derne is one of the historical places in Salas-e Babajani County which mentioned by

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(5th century BC) and

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(1st century AD). For decades Darneh/ Derne has been capital of Derteng,

Hulwan Hulwan ( fa, حلوان) was an ancient town on the Zagros Mountains in western Iran, located on the entrance of the Paytak Pass, nowadays identified with the town of Sarpol-e Zahab. History Later Arab tradition, as recorded by al-Tabari, co ...

and Bajalan dynasties, but now is a small village in Doli Dere Region in Central District of Salas-e Babajani County.

Notable people

Khana Qubadi (1700–1759), who lived in Derne the capital of Derteng and Bajelan dynasties located in modern day Salas-e Babajani County, translated

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first time in history to the

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. Unfortunately, his translation book had been burned by extremists, accordingly he had to be fugitive to the

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dynasty capital in

Shahrizor Shahrizor or Shahrazur () is a region part of Kurdistan Region, Iraq situated in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate and west of Avroman. Shahrizor is a fertile plain watered by the tributaries of Tandjaro river which flows to Diyala and Tigris rivers. ...

. Vali Dewane is another poet who lived in Derne. The biography of Vali Dewane has been cames in love like

Majnun ''Layla & Majnun'' ( ar, مجنون ليلى ; Layla's Mad Lover) is an old story of Arab origin, about the 7th-century Bedouin poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah and his ladylove Layla bint Mahdi (later known as Layla al-Aamiriya). "The Layl ...

, even more than him.

Kasra Nouri Kasra Nouri ( fa, کسری نوری) is an Iranian journalist and political activist. He was the CEO of "Majzooban-e noor" website, which covered news about the Dervish religious community, Nouri was last arrested with his family during 2018 Derv ...

, a lawyer and Gonabadi dervish imprisoned in Tehran's Revolutionary Court, has been sentenced to two years in exile for Salas-e Babajani.

12 Nov 2017 Earthquake

On 12 November 2017 at 18:18 UTC (21:48

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, 21:18

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), an

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with a

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of 7.3 occurred on the

Iran–Iraq border The Iran–Iraq border runs for 1,599 km (994 mi) from the tripoint with Turkey in the north down to the Shatt al-Arab (known as Arvand Rud in Iran) waterway and out to the Persian Gulf in the south. Although the boundary was first deter ...

, just inside

, in Ezgeleh, Salas-e Babajani County, Kermanshah Province, with an

epicentre The epicenter, epicentre () or epicentrum in seismology is the point on the Earth's surface directly above a hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or an underground explosion originates. Surface damage Before the instrumental pe ...

approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the city of

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References

* سلطانی، محمد علی، (1372)، ایلات و طوایف کرمانشاهان، ج 1، تهران: موفق * Derne, the lost city in the Salas Babajani”, by Dr. Mohammad Salmasizadeg & Borhan Abasi- Scientific Specialty Journal of Research in Art and Humanity, Tehran, Second year, Number 5, Aug/ Sep 2017, ISSN: 2538-6298 {{Salas-e Babajani County, state=collapsed Counties of Kermanshah Province