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outskirts of Guran territory. Meanwhile, the Kalhur of Zohab "became absorbed in the Guran mass" - they became known as Guran themselves, and they split into three tribes: Qal'eh-Zanjir, Kerend, and Bevanij. The Bajilan were later removed from power in the early 1800s by Muhammad Ali Mirza, governor of
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According to Minorsky, the Bajilan must have originally been a branch of the Guran who had settled in the Mosul region, and Murad was intending to "control the Guran through his own subjects" by putting the Bajilan in charge of them. The Bajilan founded a new capital for themselves at Zohab on the
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also came to mean "subjects" because Zoroastrians formed a subject population. The word then went through another series of regular sound changes to become
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and also adds that the Guran had been the closest to Badr of all his allied tribes before turning against him and killing him. Minorsky noted the
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was is unknown, although Minorsky speculated that it could have referred to "the habitat of the more easterly branch of the Guran".
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also exists; it refer to the social class of peasants. This word has a completely different origin and is derived from the word
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meaning "ox rider" or "bull rider". This name then through a series of regular sound changes:
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An early reference to the Guran may be in the works of the late 9th-century geographer
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Minorsky identified a possible ancient reference to the Guran in a passage written by
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A later description of these events, by the anonymous author of the 12th-century
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instead. Minorsky interpreted this variation as representing an underlying form
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According to Minorsky, the origins of the Guran were likely somewhere in the
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that refers to a people called the "Guranii" (Greek: Γουράνιοι
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seems unlikely to have already changed to the modern form
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grouped the Guran together with Saburkhwast (present-day
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The other one is 1305: 1248: 759: 8: 346:, a weapon historically associated with the 64:, at the western end of the gorge where the 460:, the Kalhur were deposed as rulers of the 1312: 1298: 1255: 1241: 766: 752: 744: 116:reconstructed the original tribal name as 342:s detail that the Guran killed Badr with 404:Around 1343, the Guran are mentioned in 302:in his list of the Kurdish tribes of al- 28: 540: 161:. After the Islamic conquest, the term 7: 1266: 1264: 1209: 1207: 468:. Murad then gave the region to the 330:, consistently uses the modern name 260:estuary, where the medieval town of 248:, had a similarly derived name, and 49: 25: 33:A Gurani child in Kurdish costume 1268: 1211: 775: 427:In the introduction to his 1596 393:, prompting Garshasp to flee to 278:, who mentioned "the revenue of 433:, the famous Kurdish historian 60:, a region whose capital is at 298:also mentioned a tribe called 252:also mentioned a plain called 1: 564:Jwaideh, Wadie (2004-05-14). 464:region by the Ottoman sultan 173:, at which point it became a 96:, the usual pronunciation is 1284:. You can help Knowledge by 1227:. You can help Knowledge by 732:(in Persian). Archived from 361:. For example, in 1026, the 147:A separate word pronounced 1362: 1263: 1206: 595:. Oxford University Press. 217:) as well as the medieval 177:of the tribal name (then 553:. 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Index

Guran (Kurdish tribe)

Kurdish
Kurdish
Dartang
Rijab
Alwand River
Darneh
Dalahu
Zimkan
Gurani
Kurdish
Turkish
Vladimir Minorsky
gabrān
Zoroastrians
homophone
Strabo
Armenia
Medes
Sasanian
Khosrow II
Georgian
Gurandukht
Caspian
Tabaristan
Gil Gavbara
Hamdallah Mustawfi
Gavbari
Kur

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