Bukan, Iran

Iran

Bukan, Iran links to 2276 other places across 15 topics through 54 Bunkabop connections, many of them rooted in the Kurdish cultural fabric of this West Azerbaijan city. The 19th-century poet Edeb was born in a village northeast of Bukan to a noble family descended from the local Mokryan rulers, and the mid-20th-century Kurdish singer Hassan Zirak also hailed from here. The surrounding county is populated by Shafi'i Kurds who speak Sorani Kurdish, placing Bukan inside a web of Kurdish music, language, and religious ties.