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5 unusual facts about Kermanshah


André Molitor

Molitor was born in Kermanshah, Iran, the son of a Belgian civil servant, established in Persia since 1901 on a mission of modernization of the Persian customs.

Assyrian Evangelical Church

In 2010, one of its Iranian pastors was arrested in Kermanshah and detained for 54 days for allegedly attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity.

Claude Auguste Court

He left France in 1818 for Baghdad and joined the Persian forces which were trained at Kermanshah by a handful of ex-officers of Napoleon's army including Jean-Baptiste Ventura.

George Martin Lees

From 1928 to 1930, Lees examined the company organisation and oil prospects in Germany, Canada, Egypt and the United States, as well as surveying fields in Kermanshah and Iraqi Kurdistan.

Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences

Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences is a medical school in Kermanshah, Iran.


Annazids

During the campaign, the Kurdish governor of Hamadan fled, and Abul-Shawk retreated from Dinawar to Kermanshah and then to the citadel of Sirwan.

The Annazid or Banu Annaz or Al-Anazis (990–1116), were a Kurdish dynasty that ruled a territory on the present-day Iran-Iraq frontier that included Kermanshah, Ilam, Hulwan, Dinawar (all in western Iran), Sharazour, Daquq, Daskara, Bandanijin(Mandali), and No'maniya (in south-eastern Iraq).

Ganj Darreh

Ganj Dareh, an archaeological site in Kermanshah Province, Iran

Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences

Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences is the publisher of Journal of Injury and Violence Research.

Kurdish music

Several Iranian Kurdish singers and musicians have been highly influential in classical Persian and Iranian music in general, including Sayed Ali Asghar Kordestani (1882–1936) who was allowed to perform in Kurdish on the Iranian national radio, Shahram Nazeri (Kermanshah 1950 - ), Kayhan Kalhor (Kermanshah), Mohammad Jalil Andalibi (Sanandaj), Mojtaba Mirzadeh, and Jamshid Andalibi (Sanandaj).

Nikolai Baratov

With the occupation of Qom and Kermanshah, the Russian forces under Baratov effectively isolated Persia from Ottoman Turkey, thus securing Persia for the Entente Powers.

Sefid Kooh

The watershed of the mountain is the separating line between two districts of Kermanshah, i.e. Dorood-Faraman and Sarfiroozabad of Mahidasht.


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