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GURAK—GURAN
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gurakAlAn—
A village on the western border of Kurdistan, two stages from Zuhab
on the road to Sulaimanleh.
GURAN—
A district of Kirmanshah and Ardalan, inhabited by Guran Kurds a
WWs ° ‘‘ot “hur tabe Of this tribe Sir Henry Rawlinson writes as
f T™r j ® hort1 /. after tlie tlme of Sultan Murad, the Kalhur tribe,
which had been driven out from Dartang and Darnah, assumed to them-
selves the peculiar designation of “Gurans,” which had been previously
applied to the Kurdish peasantry as distinguished from the clans: and these
Gur^ns at the same time broke off into three distinct tribes of Kaleh Zangir
armdi, and the Smjab', the names being derived from their several places
o residence. They are said, with the connivance of the Government of
Kirmanshah, to have driven the Bajlans out of Darnah in about the year
1,700, and to have obhged the latter to confine themselves to the plains
m which, shortly afterwards, the Bajlan Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. founded the town of Zuhab ”
in 1S34, when British Officers were attached to the Persian army, Mai or
Kawlmson was appointed^ to raise a regiment of Guran Kurds, which he
suceeded m doing. The Kurds, from which this regiment was formed, are
a frank and hospitable race, and, like most mountaineers, are hard and
enduring.
tr ‘ be extends from the P lain of Mahidasht
ostto Haruii-Nisbm-Khan^Qrth-west) Iicar Baneb. Kaleh Zangir and
Mount Dakhu are included in it. It ends east of the plain of Zuhab The
feharafbamis and Bajlans separate the Gurans from the frontier
Ihe chief of the Gurans in 1902 was Husain Khan, Mansur-ul-Mulk
f^w 1 } Unan h S ? n As ’ adunal1 Kh an, who was both Sartip and Governor
of the tribe and the district.
Mffik bTro^-^ 11 - KMn ’Mirpanj, son of Mansur-ul-
Mulk by a Qajar princess, who was Naib-ul-Hukumeh, is now dead
Jbormer chiefs were:—
Mustapha Khan, grandfather of Mansur-ul-Mulk,
Sulaiman Khan, cousin of Asiadullah Khan.
As’adullah Khan, father of Husain Khan.
Azizullah Khan, uncle of Husain Khan.
Ah Murad Khan, son of As’adullah Khan and brother of Husain
Khan.
Some years ago the Sultans of the tribes, at the instigation of Aaha
Saiyid Rustam, rebelled against Mansur-ul-Mulk, who had to snend
large sums to induce them to submit to his authority again. From that
time he has lost many of his properties, and the greater part of his authority
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are “deh nishin” i, e., seden\ary^^
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