Bukan

"Bokan" redirects here. For the 1970s Japanese anime series, see Time Bokan.

For the administrative subdivision, see Bukan County.

Bukan بوكان
city
Bukan
Country	Iran
Province	West Azerbaijan
County	Bukan
Bakhsh	Central
Population  (2006)
• Total	149,340
• Estimate  (2012)	172.000
Time zone	UTC+3:30 (IRST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+4:30 (IRDT)

Bukan (Persian: بوكان; Kurdish:بۆکان; also Romanized as Būkān, Bokan, and Bowkān) is a city in and the capital of Bukan County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 149,340, in 32,488 families. As of 2012, its population was estimated to be near171.773 & in 43،543 families. Bukan distric is located at 31.36.30 northern and 46.12eastern and copries of tow parts of simineh and central. Environmwntally and climatically bukan is a highland with snow-capped mountins which looks like as beauty qeen of kurdistan . As regard to the history of the area,according to the the archaeological finds it should be said that from the earliest time. Bukan is located south of Lake Urmia about 1,300 metres above sea level. It lies in the West Azarbaijan Province of Iran. The town is situated on the eastern bank of the Sīmīnarūd (Tk. Tatahūčāy), known locally as Čōmī Bōkān, on the road between Saqqez and Miandoab.

People

Bukan is inhabited by Kurds, adherents of Shafeʿite Sunnism, who speak the Sorani, or central, dialect of Kurdish. The rural population is engaged in farming (wheat, barley and other cereals, sugar beets, tobacco, and some summer crops), gardening, and animal hus­bandry. Formerly the village housed a Jewish commu­nity of about 70 families (Razmārā, loc. cit.).

Religion

In November 1996, 94 percent of the city's population are Muslims. The ratio in urban areas and 92 percent in rural areas was 98 percent. Bukan people are mainly Sunni Shafi'i sect.

Repubilc

Residents of Bukan were actively involved in the short-lived Kurdish Republic of 1946, which had its capital at Mahābād (Eagleton). The town acquired a printing press, and books and magazines were published in Kurdish there. Six years later the region was the center of a peasant revolt that spread to all the Kurdish provinces of Iran (Mokhammedov). Peasant forces were able to force the āḡās out of the villages and besieged them in Bukan. The army interfered, and the revolt was ruthlessly put down (Hēmin, pp. 38–39; Kurdistān [publication of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Kurdish] 23, February, 1973, pp. 1, 3). The people of Bukan participated in the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 and in the subsequent movement for Kurdish autonomy.

History

Mannaeas

This city is the capital of civilization about 3000 years ago under the name Izertu (Zirtu) was Mannaean. due to lack of adequate facilities in the city museum and seen the effects of this civilization is expressed in a small sample of his works in museums around the world including the Museum of stolen Museum, University of Tokyo, and can be seen. These civilizations have settled in the Kurdish region in northwestern Iran. The distinctive art Mannayy indescribable elegance and beauty that is unique in their contemporary civilizations. They have been called the art of making glazed bricks. Bricks with colorful designs that they plan to remain intact after nearly 3000 years. Beautiful specimens in the Museum of East Ancient bricks found in Tokyo.

Qajar

Bukan at Naserdin Shah ghajar tiny village of small houses around the eyes is not over, because of its importance to the city's relationship with the family of Sardar Add your Listing Mokri, during which several Aylhay Mukerian live in the area and surrounding Brrvstahay professors governance. It's up to Sardar Khan M. Mokri chief civilian and military forces during the Shah's troops, Bukan in the reign of Muhammad Shah Qajar tribe Khalky for $ 900 USD (earth) can be purchased.

External links

• Bukan entry in the Encyclopædia Iranica
• Mannaean glazed bricks from Bukan

Further reading

• GODARD, A. ۱۹۴۹. Izirtu(Bukan), La capitale du pays des Manneens, Zibie et Armaid. Comptes de *Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres: ۳۱۲-۳۱۳
• KARGAR, B. ۲۰۰۴. Qalaichi: zirtu: Center of Manna, Period Ib, in M. Azarnoush (ed.)
• Proceedings of the International Symposium on Iranian Archaeology; Northwestern Region: ۲۲۹-۲۴۵. Tehran: Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (in Farsi).