Rawandiz (Kurdish: ڕەواندز, romanized: Rewandiz)[1][2] is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, located in the Erbil Governorate in soran district, close to the borders with Iran and Turkey, it is only 7km far from the city ceneter of soran city and it is located 10 km to the east from Bekhal Waterfall. This city is 123 km far from Erbil. The city along with the soran district is surrounded by the Zagros mountain range; Korek Mountain is to the south, Hindren Mountain to the north, Zozik Mountain to the west, and Bradasot Mountain to the east. Rawandiz is populated by Kurds.
^"لە هەوارگەی (شنگلبانە)ی گەشتیاری یەکەمەکانی سنووری ڕەواندز خەڵات دەکرێن" (in Kurdish). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
^"Welatiyên Rewandiz li benda nexweşxaneyê ne". ROJ News (in Kurdish). 1 December 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
Rawandiz (Kurdish: ڕەواندز, romanized: Rewandiz) is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, located in the Erbil Governorate in soran district, close to...
Region in Iraq. Delal Bridge in Zakho Duhok Canyon near to the city of Rawandiz Erbil Akre The archaeological hills in Erbil "Kurdistan Region Statistics...
Kurdistan by Ottoman Empire in 1514 and later revived by Emir Kor centered in Rawandiz from 1816 to 1836. Kor was ousted in an offensive by the Ottomans. While...
been in Rawandiz. There were five sub-districts in Soran, being Mergasur, Diyana, Khalifan, Rawandiz and Sidekan. Recently, however, Rawandiz became a...
consecutive attacks between 15 May and 16 August 1988, the valleys of Rawandiz and Shaqlawa were targeted, and the attacks had different successes. The...
district encompasses one sub-district, Warte, and 12 villages. The district is 123 km from Erbil. Rawandiz Bekhal Waterfall Erbil Official Website v t e...
assault aimed at breaking through Kurdish defenses and seizing control of Rawandiz. However, the Kurds had anticipated this strategy and had prepared accordingly...
Urartu and the kingdom of Musasir in early 1st millennium BCE. Modern Rawandiz district was a religious center of the Urartians. The Medes conquered the...
1510–1609) was a hereditary Kurdish emirate, ruling roughly the area from Rawandiz to Targavar and Margavar south of Urmia at its height. The emirate was...
Date 24 February – 20 May 1986 Location Sulaymaniyah and Rawandiz, Iraq Result Iranian strategic failure Minor gains for Iran Successful Iraqi counter-attacks...
the Kurdistan Region, in Erbil Governorate. It is located 10 km west of Rawandiz and 135 km from Erbil. This waterfall hosts many visitors and tourists...
Orontes II or Yervand II Orontes III or Yervand III Orontes IV or yervand IV Rawandiz, a city in Iraq whose name is derived from a name which was spelled "Orontes"...
ھەولێر Arabic: محافظة أربيل Governorate Clockwise, from top: Canyon in Rawandiz, Koy Sanjaq, Shaqlawa and Citadel of Erbil Seal Location of the Erbil Governorate (red)...
is the capital of the district. Rawandiz District consists of the two sub-districts of Rawandiz and Wertê. Rawandiz is the capital of the district. Şeqlawe...
main temple of worship for Ḫaldi in Musasir, believed to be near modern Rawandiz, Iraq). Ḫaldi was not initially worshiped by the Urartians as their chief...
orientalist Ilya Berezin mentioned that 7,000 Yazidis were killed by Kurds of Rawandiz on the hills of Nineveh near Mosul, shortly before his arrival. According...
Mehemedê Rewandizî; also known as Mirê Kor - the "blind prince"; born in Rawandiz; 1783–1838) was Kurdish Mir of the Soran Emirate (1813–1838). He led an...
Muṣaṣir. H. F. B. Lynch claimed that it was close to the modern town of Rawandiz in Iraqi Kurdistan. Urartologist Paul Zimansky speculated that the Urartians...
include the subjugation of the Simko Shikak revolt forcing Simko to flee to Rawandiz in Iraqi Kurdistan – where he sought the support of Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji...
with help from Assyrians and Armenians, massacred around 8,000 Kurds in Rawandiz. In 1916, around 300,000 Kurds from Bitlis, Erzurum, Palu and Muş were...
including in and around the cities of Mosul, Erbil, Kirkuk, Dohuk, Amedi and Rawandiz, and there are a fair number of exclusively Assyrian towns, villages, hamlets...
before the Independence Court. The judge was the Kurd Ali Saip Ursavaş from Rawandiz, with whom Kadri Cemilpasha had previously argued. Although the court acquitted...
the town was once again sacked, this time by the Kurdish Governor of Rawandiz who also sacked the town of Alqosh. On 6 August 2014, the town was captured...
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