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2500 year old agriculture survives in
Uramanat-Kurdistan Iran
17.9.2005
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Living a traditional life,
Uramanat residents of the Kurd region of Iran still
use agricultural styles of 2500 years ago.
Tehran, 17 September 2005 (CHN) -- Uramanat’s
agriculture, the style of which goes back to the
first millennium BC, enjoys the quality to be
registered on Iran’s National Heritage list.
Uramanat valley, located in Kurdistan of Iran, is
considered the main nucleus of Kurdistan by Adel
Farhangi, an expert with Iran’s Cultural Heritage
and Tourism Organization, where people enjoy a
dialect of Kurdish language, music, and dances
specific to themselves also delivered to other areas
of the province. |
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"Using valleys for agriculture, irrigation systems
for farms, bringing soil to the area from other
parts, are all carried out in the same way from 2500
years ago, making the agriculture of this region
survive intact during the time," says Farhanghi.
Inhabitants of Uramanat region have maintained their
traditional system of life and no fundamental
changes have been done to this region yet.
According to Farhangi, this region enjoys a special,
coherent system of culture, agriculture, way of
thinking and behavior, infrastructure, and defending
system of their own. All these characteristics make
the region worth of being registered on the Cultural
Heritage list.
The language of Uromanat inhabitants is a kind of
Kurdish dialect, which is not easily understood in
other parts of Kurdistan. The music and folk of this
region is different from the other parts of
Kurdistan as well. Folk dances have a special
cultural value among the people of the region.
Some other tribes have had temporal effects on the
region during the history, but Uramanat people have
made the most influence in the Zagros region during
the history. Therefore it is important to carry out
more studies on them.
The area is planned to undergo some anthropology and
archaeological studies. Cultural Heritage and
Tourism Organization of Iran is now completing the
national registration process of the region.
Uramanat starts from Kurdistan province of Iraq,
which is the greenest part of it, and runs to
Kermanshah and Kurdistan provinces in Iran
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