Kalhor (tribe)

Kalhor (Kurdish: کەڵھوڕ‎)[1] is a Kurdish tribe[2][3][4][5] and their dialect has been categorized as a branch of Southern Kurdish.[6][7]

The tribe is described as the most powerful tribe mainly in the province of Kermānšāh and other parts of the region as "one of the most ancient, if not the most ancient, of the tribes of Kurdistan". The Kelhors were already mentioned by Šaraf-al-Din Bedlisi in the late 16th century,[8] according to whom, the chiefs of the Kalhor claimed to be descended from Gudarz, son of Giv (q.v.), a major hero in the Shahnameh[9]

The majority of the Kalhors are Shiites, with some followers of the Yarsanism.[10]

See also
General Baratov, Russian Cossack at a meeting with British officers and the leaders of the Kalhor tribes in Kermanshah 1917

References
  1. "نوێترین ئەلبوومی کەیھان کەڵھوڕ لە ئاستی جیھاندا بڵاودەکرێتەوە". 23 December 2020 (in Kurdish).
  2. "Kalhor". Encyclopædia Iranica. KALHOR, a Kurdish tribe in the southernmost part of Persian Kurdistan
  3. Potts, Daniel T. (2014). Nomadism in Iran: From Antiquity to the Modern Era. Oxford University Press. p. 352. ISBN 9780199330799.
  4. Arjomand, Said Amir (1988). The Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran. Oxford University Press. p. 56. ISBN 9780195042580. Furthermore, the Kalhor Kurds in the west, the Turkman tribes in the northeast and the Baluch in the southeast were showing clear signs of open insubordination
  5. Hamzehʼee, M. Reza (1990). The Yaresan: a sociolgoical, historical and religio-historical study of a Kurdish community. K. Schwarz. p. 62. ISBN 9783922968832. The Kalhor and Zangeneh Kurds, with the help of the Afshars, fought the invading army but were defeated.136 Therefore Nader Shah came to ...
  6. "Kurdish, Southern". Ethologue.
  7. "Kalhori of Kurdish, Southern (sdh)". MultiTree:A Digital Library of Language Relationships.
  8. I, pp. 317-19
  9. Bedlisi, I, pp. 317-19
  10. Mirzā Samiʿā, tr., comm., p. 171
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