Baneh

City of Baneh is located in West mountainous and forested region of Kurdistan province which is surrounded by mountains like Arbaba (آرببا), Jnireh (جنیره), Babos (بابوس) and Dozin (دوزین). the geographical coordinates of Baneh is longitude 45 degrees 53 minutes latitude and 35 degrees 59 minutes.[6]

Baneh has cold winters and mild summers and also air temperature difference of twenty degrees below zero to thirty-six degrees above zero. The amount of annual precipitation is 921 mm.

Pre-Islamic Zoroastrian nation called "Qaqo (Kurdish:قه‌قو)" ruled on the region and in the Arab invasion of Iran and then took it to Ekhtiyaredinis (Persian: اختیارالدینی) Until the middle of the thirteenth century AD. the original name of the city of Baneh is Barozha (Kurdish: به‌روژه)(mean:sunflower) and There are also documents that in all of them the base of Baneh, is the village that was called Barozha.

Around the time of the Safavid usually guarding the Iranian border, from the city of Kermanshah to Khoy was assigned to rulers of Baneh. Governors of Baneh and Uraman holds the title of "King". Some authors believe that this title was given to them by Nader Shah Afshar.

The city once before World War I and again in World War II was a burnt fiercely. The northeast cemetery of the city, is called "Baneh kon (Kurdish: بانه کۆڹ; Persian: بانه کهنه)". The rename and displacement reason of the city was due to cholera and plague epidemic diseases that were common every few years and then survivors, assumed the primary site infected and created the city somewhere else. Fires and tribal conflict was another cause of the displacement of city.

In 1323 solar Baneh was set on fire by Mohammad Rashid Khan Darokhani (of Kurds in the Iraqi village Darokhan) who had rebelled against the central government in Iran, but he escaped to Iraq by attacking government forces and the reconstruction of city began and continued for 10 years.

Sulaymaniyah Sorani Kurdish dialect is the language of Baneh.

Baneh is Sunni Muslim and their religion is Imam Shafi'i. There was a Jewish minority in Baneh, whose number was over forty families. After Israel declared independence in 1948 and the partition of Palestine, they thinking about immigration to Palestine in 1327 solar and in late 1328 immigrated and left Baneh completely. At the same time, Sardasht, Saqqez, Bokan and Marivan Jews and part of Sanandaj and Mahabad and Piranshahr Jews also emigrated. There are two theories about Jewish settlement in the West, the first one stated that the first Baneh Jewish settlement happened in the year 136 AD during the Barkoshbas (Persian: بارکوشباس) revolt against Roman government and the dispersal of Jews around the world, and second, relates this issue to Tiglate Placer king of Assyria in 741 to 749 BC, after the conquest of Jerusalem by the Placer more than sixty thousand Jews exiled in parts of the West of Iran, Median land, south of the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains.

Since the mid-70s cross-border trade flourished in Baneh. One of its effects, commodity prices were coming down. That's why the field of making shopping malls for selling cross-border cheaper goods arose, that to this date nearly 110 shopping centers have been built in the city. This process during 20 years made Baneh to become an important economical hub in the country. Annual circulation of money reaches more than 100 million dollars.

After flourishing the economy and trading in Baneh, people all around the country made Baneh, one of their traveling destination goals to buy the cheaper goods. Annually Baneh is visited by more than 2 million tourists. Baneh also has a very beautiful and astonishing nature, jungle parks and untouched forests and advancing in the tourism industry also has made the city a fine place for travelers.