About Sanandaj
Even by Iran’s super-hospitable standards, Sanandaj is a remarkably friendly city. It’s the capital of Kordestan province, a good base for visits to Palangan and a great place to learn more about Kurdish history and culture. You’ll see plenty of men wearing traditional cummerbunds and baggy Kurdish trousers. Yet it’s a modern, noticeably prosperous city with a large, fashionable population of students ever anxious to try out their English. In Sanandaj’s Sorani-Kurdish ju-an means beautiful and deso hoshbe means thank you.

Busily commercial Ferdosi St links the twin centres Enqelab and Azadi Sqs. From the latter, Abidar St slopes up into the folds of a rocky ridge that was the city’s historic defence and is today the pleasant Abidar mountain park.

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The Kūh-e Owrāmān range has several peaks of over 2,000 m, the highest being Kūh-e Taḵt, 2,985 m. It is continued south of the Sīrvān by the Kūh-e Šāhō, which rises to 3,223 m. Parallel to these, east of the Sīrvān, is the Kūh-e Sālān, 2,597 m. The chief products of the area are various orchard fruits, walnuts, gall-apples (for tanning), and terebinth mastic.

Iran pomegranate

Iran is known as the largest producer of pomegranate in the world. The Pomegranate is full of special vitamins and it includes anti oxidants with plenty of medical benefits. This page is to introduce this fruit and to explain the nutritional and medical benefits of pomegranate.
There are more than 700 verities of pomegranate in Iran and they are classified based on the skin color, seeds and taste. We will introduce the more popular and preferable type of pomegranate in Iran along with their characteristics.

Pomegranate farms are spread all over Iran, as a result many types of POM Trees are to be found and adapted in various environments. We will briefly explain the characteristics of POM Tree and requirements for planting and growing.

In a large scale, most pomegranate farms in Iran do not use any chemical fertilizer or insecticides. This complex of various farms is now providing the market with a fully organic pomegranate. Due to the high demand of global market for organic products, Major and organic producers of this fruit will be introduced here, as well we will introduce the active export businesses.

Considering the medical advantages, this fruit has been using to treat various diseases for a long time in traditional medical treatment. In this site we will look at the medical aspects of this fruit and introduce some practically proven cure of this fruit.

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In Quchan, Shirvan, Bojnord, Esfaraien, sycamore, Kalat and Dargazi of the most important is the people living in this area in the Kurmanji dialect and most people are. Turkmenistan is also a significant number who speak the Kurmanji Kurdish language, including the city’s turquoise.

Wedding of Kurmanji Kurds nomad/ Photo

Video: Kurmanj Women

Video: Kurmanji Dance

Video: Kurmanj Music

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Mariwan also known as Qal‘eh-ye Marīvān – “Fort Marivan”; formerly, Dezhe Shahpur, also Romanized as Dezhe Shāhpūr and Dezhe Shapoor is a city in and capital of Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran.

Nowruz is an ancestral festivity marking the first day of spring and the renewal of nature. It was proclaimed as an official UN observance because it promotes peace and solidarity, particularly in families.

Photo: Dana Azarin, tasnim

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