Kermanshah

Kermanshah (in Kurdish: Kirmaşan , in Persan: کرمانشاه) is the capital of the province of the same name in the west of the Iran. It is located at 521 km of Teheran and at approximately 80 km of the border Iraq ienne, with the foot of the mounts Zagros.

The inhabitants are as a majority of the Kurdish various tribes, whose majority were sédentarisés after the Second world war. They speak the southernmost dialect about the Kurdish . The majority of the Kurdish in this city is Sunnite S.

History

The city was founded with by Vahram IV, sovereign of the dynasty Sassanide. Conquered by the Arab in 640, the city was called Qirmasin (Qirmashin). Under the reign Seldjoukide at the 11th century, it was the chief town of the Kurdistan. The Safavides strengthened the city, and the Qajar S pushed back an attack of the Turkish during the reign of Fath' Ali Shah (1797-1834). Occupied by the Turkish army in 1915 during the First World War, which evacuated it in 1917.

Industry

The city is now a relatively important industrial center; industries present include the production Textile, the refining of oil, the weaving and tying of carpet, the refining of sugar and the production of tools and electrical equipment.

Personalities related to the city

Guity Novin (Navran), Painter sculptor and the founder of the movement of Transpressionisme, born in Kermanshah, in 1944, lives and works with the Canada
André Molitor, is a former senior civil servant of the Belgian State and former principal private secretary of King Baudouin Ier of Belgium since the emancipation of the king during 17 years. He was also an eminent professor of Public administration with the catholic Université of Leuwen (Leuwen) was born there.
Dory Lessing, born Doris May Tayler, British novelist, Nobel Prize of literature in 2007, was born on October 22nd, 1919 in Kermanshah.

Bonds

Kermanshah in Encyclopedia Britannica

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