The exact location, according to Minorsky, Schippmann, and Boyce, is identified as being near Laylān in the Miandoab plain.
# Al-Akrad: Mulahezat u Enteba'at (The Kurds: Notes and Impressions), By Minorsky, Translation from Russian into Arabic, 99 pp.
Vladimir Minorsky (1877 – 1966), a Russian Orientalist who studied Kurdish and Persian history, geography, literature, and culture.
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Nicolas Minorsky (1885 – 1970), a Russian American control theory mathematician and applied scientist.
In her memorial paper to Nicolas Minorsky published in the IEEE Transactions On Automatic Control, author Irmgard Flügge-Lotz stated that Minorsky's greatest contribution to the development of nonlinear mechanics in the U.S. was Minorsky's early recognition that important papers in the field were being published in the Soviet Union in a language that few American researchers could read.
Bosworth, C. E. (ed), Iran and Islam: in memory of the late Vladimir Minorsky, Edinburgh University Press, 1971.