Rawandiz: Difference between revisions

| image_skyline = File:Rawanduz, - Kurdistan Regional Government.jpg

| image_caption = View onof Rawandiz

| pushpin_map = Iraqi Kurdistan#Iraq

| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|[[Kurdistan Region}}]]

'''Rawandiz''' ({{lang-ar|رواندز}};<ref>{{cite news |title=بالفيديو- يصارع الشلل.. عراقي يكسب رزقه بأصبع وحيد ومن كرسي متحرك |url=https://www.aljazeera.net/news/lifestyle/2020/7/15/شاهد-موهوب-عراقي-ينجز-أعماله-بأصبع |access-date=21 November 2020 |language=ar}}</ref> {{lang-ku|ڕەواندز|Rewandiz}})<ref>{{cite news |title=لە هەوارگەی (شنگلبانە)ی گەشتیاری یەکەمەکانی سنووری ڕەواندز خەڵات دەکرێن |url=http://www.basnews.com/index.php/so/news/kurdistan/379619 |access-date=19 December 2019 |language=ku}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Welatiyên Rewandiz li benda nexweşxaneyê ne |url=https://rojnews.news/ku/civak-jiyan/welatiyen-rewandiz-li-benda-nexwesxaneye-ne-36681 |access-date=19 December 2019 |work=ROJ News |date=1 December 2019 |language=ku}}</ref> is a city in the [[Kurdistan Region]] of [[Iraq]], located in the [[Erbil Governorate]] in [[Soran, Iraq|Soran]] district, close to the [[Iran–Iraq border|borders with Iran]] and [[Iraq–Turkey border|Turkey]],. It is only 7&nbsp;km from the city center of Soran city and it is located 10&nbsp;km to the east fromof the [[Bekhal Waterfall]]. The districtcity is 123&nbsp;km from Erbil. The city along with the Soran district is surrounded by the [[Zagros Mountains|Zagros mountain range]]; Korek Mountain is to the south, Hindren Mountain to the north, Zozik Mountain to the west, and Bradasot Mountain to the east. Rawandiz is populated by [[Kurds]].

The area came under the rule of the [[Emirate of Bradost]] after the [[Battle of Chaldiran]] in 1514.<ref name="orientemoderno">{{cite journal|last1=Dehqan|first1=Mustafa|last2=Genç|first2=Vural|date=2019|title=The Kurdish Emirate of Brādōst, 1510-1609|url=https://brill.com/view/journals/ormo/99/3/article-p306_4.xml|journal=Oriente Moderno|volume=99|issue=3|pages=306–320|doi=10.1163/22138617-12340222|s2cid=213564665 |access-date=30 January 2021}}</ref> The town would later come under the rule of the [[Soran Emirate]] until 1836.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Bosworth|first=C.E.|date=1965|title=Rawāndiz|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/*-COM_0914|journal=[[Encyclopedia of Islam]]|edition=2|volume=|pages=|doi=10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0914|via=}}</ref>

|access-date=2009-09-06}}</ref> The Rawandiz massacre took place, where the Kurdish Muslim population was massacred by the Russian army and allied Assyrian militants; after Nikolai Baratov's [[Cossacks]] recaptured the town, only 20 percent of the Kurdish population managed to survive.<ref>Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918, Michael A. Reynolds, page 158, 2011. Quote "The Russian's local allies often abetted this line of thinking. One Assyrian officer urged his superiors to drop the Russian rule of concilatings one's enemy peacefully in favor of all-out warfare on Muslims. The British Major E. W. C Noel described the extermination of the town of Rowanduz and the wholesale massacre of its [Muslim] inhabitants by what he dubbed Christian Army of Revenge of Agha Petros as one example of a long record of outrages</ref> In 1922 the town was occupied by the [[Government of the Grand National Assembly|Turks]], until they were driven out at the end of the year.<ref>{{cite web

|access-date=2011-09-25}}</ref> In 1930, A. M. Hamilton noted: "it has always been a place of grim deeds and bloody retributions. Its greater and its lesser rulers alike have nearly all met with violent deaths and even today this reputation is being well earned".<ref name="Hamilton"/> The anthropologist [[Edmund Leach]] went to Rawandiz in 1938, to study the Rawandiz Kurds, intending to make this the subject of his thesis. His field trip had to be aborted because of the [[Munich crisis]], but he nevertheless published his monograph "Social and Economic Organization of the Rowanduz Kurds " two years later.<ref>{{cite book

|Jan high C = 9.5.3

|Feb high C = 10.9

|Mar high C = 1513.14

|Apr high C = 21.020

|Jun high C = 34.833

|Jul high C = 38.936

|Aug high C = 39.142

|Sep high C = 35.138

|Jan low C = 0.0-6

|Feb low C = 0.0-2

|Mar low C = 4.50

|Apr low C = 9.4

'''==Gallery==

File:بيرويان.jpg| '''[[Nowruz]] 2021 in Rawanduz District'''

File:P20503-181554.jpg|'''peruyan'''Peruyan

File:IMG-20210417-WA0002(وادي رواندز ( خه ره ند.jpg|'''Valley Rawanduz''' Gorge

File:(وادي رواندز ( خه ره ند.jpg| '''Valley Rawanduz''' Gorge

File:جنديان.png|'''Jundian'''