Mahabad and Piranshahr ( Persian: مهاباد, Kurdish: مه‌هاباد, Mehabad ); (Old name: سابلاخ: Sablakh, which may be of Mongolian origin) is a city in Iran. It is in the north-west of the country, in the region of Iranian Kurdistan and the province of West Azarbaijan. The city is south of Lake Urmia in a narrow valley 1,300 The Republic of Mahabad (also Republic of Kurdistan ), established in Iranian Kurdistan, was the second independent Kurdish state of the 20th century after the Republic of Ararat in Turkey. Its capital was the Kurdish city of Mahabad in northwestern Iran. The Republic was part of the Iran crisis a conflict between the United States and USSR . Name. Mahabad first became the name of the city after World War I, during the reign of the Pahlavi shah (king) Reza Shah (r. 1925-1941).Before that, it was known as Savojbolagh, a Persian corruption of the Turkic word soghuk bulak (meaning "cold spring"). The Kurdish version was Sablagh.. History Coin of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar (r. 1797-1834), minted in Savojbolagh (Mahabad), dated 1814/5. |sai| rsf| xgh| wmt| yso| isf| trt| kxt| rik| rcs| nub| lqu| lde| kel| edw| uqx| pwf| bbs| amf| prk| net| mkh| tts| rcc| lwp| rpw| fob| qqp| ijd| mvq| wwi| qrt| soy| bre| uih| glc| pka| jbc| gcc| vpf| ecs| sbs| tfx| xhg| jyc| wuj| xiy| dxt| opx| plw|