Salas-e Babajani County


Salas-e Babajani County or Salasi Bawajani is a county in Kermanshah Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Tazehabad. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 37,056, in 7,734 families. The county is subdivided into two districts: the Central District and Ezgeleh District. The county has two cities: Tazehabad and Ezgeleh.
Kasra Nouri, a lawyer and Gonabadi dervishes imprisoned in Tehran's Revolutionary Court, has been sentenced to two years in exile for salas-e Babajani.
The spoken language in the city is Kurdish, but the language which is used in schools and offices is Persian, since the official language in Iran is Persian, almost everyone in the city is fluent in Persian.

History

/Derne is one of the historical places in Salas-e Babajani County which mentioned by Herodotus and Ptolemy. For decades Darneh/ Derne has been capital of Derteng, Hulwan and Bajalan dynasties, but now is a small village in Doli Dere Region in Central District of Salas-e Babajani County.
Some of the most important historical elders whom raised from Salas-e Babajani County are Habibollah Khan-e Babajani renowned as a Nizam Al- Ayaleh and Mostafa Khan-e Babajani renowned as a Masoud al-Saltanah. Both of them has a great role in the history of Kermanshah, specially in Hawraman and Salas-e Babajani County. Tombs of those two great men are located in historical cemetery of Khaneh Shur in Central District of Salas-e Babajani County.

Celebrities

or,, who lived in Derne the capital of Derteng and Bajelan dynasties located in modern day Salas-e Babajani County, translated Quran first time in history to the Kurdish language. Unfortunately his translation book had been burned by extremists, accordingly he had to be fugitive to the Baban dynasty capital in Shahrizor. Vali Dewane is another poet who lived in Derne. The biography of Vali Dewane has been cames in love like Majnun, even more than him

12 Nov 2017 Earthquake

On 12 November 2017 at 18:18 UTC, an earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.3 occurred on the Iran–Iraq border, just inside Iran, in Ezgeleh, Salas-e Babajani County, Kermanshah Province, with an epicentre approximately 30 kilometres south of the city of Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan.