Sidekan also called Bradost, a vast sub-district belongs to Soran District north of Erbil in Kurdistan Region, with 250 villages, and population of less than 15000. the exact number of Bradostian people estimated more than this census but as the original inhabitants had been deported three times in 1961, 1978 and 1988 and a lot of them has not returned yet due to the frequently bombing by Turkish and Iranian army on the Kurdistan Workers Party strongholds located in Khakurk mountains, and also because of the lack of renovation projects by the local authorities.
History
After 1958 and the return of Mullah Mustafa Barzani from Russia, and then the outbreak of Kurdish revolution in 1961 under his leadership, Sidekan became a dangerous place to stay overall impact of some of its residents to leave them, especially the family of Sheikh Rashid Lolan and his Soffi followers and the family of Mahmoud Beg and his sons. Barzani had bad relationships with both families. firstly, they dwelled in Diana and Harir and then inside Erbil in both and. In 1978 the government issued a decision to evacuated the border areas with Turkey and Iran to prevent contact between Kurdish rebels and villagers.. accordingly, Bradost people deported to Diana, Tobzawa, Kesnezan and Degele around the city of Erbil. the rest of them deported during Iraq-Iran war 1984-1988 to Badleyan near Diana. the name of Sidekan had mentioned d in a Historical Islamic books in Arabic, "said Abu Abbas Qalqashandi who died in 821 Hijri wrote about Sidekan and their princes in his Book "Sobh a'sha" as one of the countries of Eastern during Hulagu Khan's rule one of them was the prince Ali Hossam Eddin Zerzari and Henesh bin Ismail, the prince of Beazgir.
Sidkan old town was located near the village of Mucéser which was called Muṣaṣir which was an ancient Mannaean city, attested in Assyrian sources of the 9th and 8th centuries BC. It was acquired by the Urartian king Ishpuini ca. 800 BC. The city's tutelary deity was Ḫaldi. The name Musasir in Akkadian means exit of the serpent. The Musasir temple was an important Araratian temple in Musasir, The Temple at Musasir appears in an Assyrian bas-relief which adorned the palace of King Sargon II at Khorsapat, to commemorate his victory over "the seven kings of Ararat" in 714 BC. During the early 1850s, the British Assyrian Excavation Fund entered the field under William Kennett Loftus and many antiquities and accurate drawings of wall sculptures were apportioned between the British Museum and the Louvre. However, a convoy of antiquities was attacked by Arab robbers while being shipped down the Tigris River, and today lies buried somewhere in the bed of that river.
Ardini Kingdom
was one of the city of ancient Musasir who mentioned in Keleshin stele, the location of this city is now called not too far from Mucéser five km from Sidekan town.
Kéleshin Stele
Kéle shin meaning "Green stone" in Kurdish is a mountain pass located on the Iranian border, Bradost area north of Iraqi Kurdistan some 80 km south-west of Lake Urmia. The Kélashin Stele found in Kélashin pass, bears an important Urartian-Assyrian bilingual text dating to ca. 800 BC, first described by Friedrich Eduard Schulz in 1827. Part of Schulz's notes were lost when he was killed by local brigands, and later expeditions were either prevented by weather conditions or brigands, so that a copy of the inscription could only be made in 1951 by G. Cameron, and again in 1976 by an Italian party under heavy military protection. The inscription describes the acquisition of the city of Musasir by the Urartian king Ishpuini the stele is now kept in the museum of Urmia city since 1984. also there are a small stele found in Topzawa village, close to Sidekan town called Topzawa stele. it kept in Erbil museum.
Topzawa stele
From Topzawa, 25 km is from Kéleshin, a bilingual Stele of King Rusa I urartu. It is badly preserved. The text tells how Urzana appeared in front of Musasir Rusa, perhaps, as Russell suggested, to seek for help against the Assyrians. Rusa attacked the Assyrians and Urzana sat on the throne of his fathers. Musasir were offered to the gods of sacrifice. At the end of the inscription are the one who destroys, threatened the usual punishment of the gods. Most researchers assume that Musasir was in the vicinity of Topzawa
Clans and tribes
Sidekan is inhabited by the clan of Bradost or Biradost which has four main branches:
Begzade in the villages of, Lolan and in Dashti-Berazgir.
Khakurki in Khakurk area close to Shemdinan district with Turkish border.
Piresni in Sidekan town, zerza valley and outlying areas.
Rewendok including Shekhzade branch, in Dashti Hért who live as Semi-Nomade and their summer residences are in Kéle Shin Pass close to Oshnavieh inside Iran border
There is also a tribe of Muhacir who are originally immigrants came from Turkey and Iranian Kurdistan with Sheikh Taha Nehri and Simko Shikak during Shemdinan-Chariq unrest in 1884 and 1915
Geographic details
Mountains
Bradost is a mountainous area characterized by high mountains the most famous one is Helgurd in the south eastalso there are : Goshine, Bizeen, Berbizeen, Shekiw, Déwane, Siako, Hesenbeg, Bolé, Rebenok, Qelender, Awedel Kéw, xréne.
Rivers
Haji beg, originate from Khakurk and pour out into upper Zab in the village of Rézan
Gader rise from Lolan area and crosses into Deshti-Shno and Silduz and pour out into the Lake of Urumia
Zena thru Letan valley into Balekyan branch and then to Zab.
Lakes
There are some Volcanic lake located in the highlands close to Kileshin passage, locally called which mean small lakelet. The famous one is. in the graphics of Musasir this lake is shown up.
