Soran
Soran may refer to:
Soran District
Soran (Kurdish: قەزای سۆران) is an area in Iraqi Kurdistan bordering Iran and Turkey. Its main city is Diana which is also called Soran, although outside the region the town of Rawandiz is better known. According to Kurdistan television, citing an official in the town of Soran, the population of the region is estimated to be over 400,000.
Kurdish settlement in the region dates back prior to the establishment of the Sassanid empire. King Ardashir I of Persia mentioned the region in 224 during his battle against the Median king Madig.
A major Kurdish dialect (Sorani) is named after the region.
One of the Kurdish principality named as the Soran lordship ruled, for some years, in the 19th century, one of the famous kings was Pasha Kora (\Blind king). They went to war with the Ottoman Empire and also the Baban lordship.
Sub-Districts
Soran District is similar to a county, and the seat of government for Soran District is in Diana. Formerly it was at Rawandiz, however it was moved to Diana.
Central Kurdish
Central Kurdish (کوردیی ناوەندی; kurdîy nawendî) also called Sorani (سۆرانی; Soranî) is a Kurdish dialect spoken in Iraq, mainly in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the Kurdistan Province of western Iran. Sorani Kurdish is one of the two official languages of Iraq, along with Arabic, and is in political documents simply referred to as "Kurdish".
The term Sorani (سۆرانی; Soranî), after the name of the former principality of Soran, is used especially to refer to a written, standardized form of Central Kurdish written in an adapted form of the Kurdo-Arabic alphabet, developed in the 1920s by Sa'íd Sidqi Kaban and Taufiq Wahby.
History
In Sulaymaniyah, the Ottoman Empire had created a secondary school (Rushdiye), the graduates from which could go to Istanbul to continue to study there. This allowed Sorani, which was spoken in Silêmanî, to progressively replace Hewrami (Gorani) as the literary vehicle.
Since the fall of the Ba'athist regime in Iraq, there have been more opportunities to publish works in the Kurdish language in Iraq than in any other country in recent times. As a result, Sorani Kurdish has become the dominant written form of Kurdish.
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