Kamyaran is a city in and capital of Kamyaran County

Kamyaran County

Kamyaran County is a county in Kordestan Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Kamyaran. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 104,704, in 25,012 families. The county is subdivided into two districts: the Central District and Muchesh District...

, Kurdistan Province

Kurdistan Province

Kurdistan Province or Kordestan Province or Kurdestan Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, not to be confused with the greater geographical area of Iranian Kurdistan. The province of Kurdistan is 28,817 km² in area which encompasses just one-fourth of the Kurdish inhabited areas of Iran or...

, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 46,760, in 11,186 families.

The city of Kamyaran is located at the south end of Kurdistan Province between two major kurdish cities Sanandaj

Sanandaj

Sanandaj , also Romanized as Senneh and Sinneh) is a city in and the capital of Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 311,446, in 81,380 families....

 and Kermanshah

Kermanshah

Kermanshah is a city in and the capital of Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 784,602, in 198,117 families.The overwhelming majority of Kermanshahi people are Shi'a Muslims...

. The inhabitants of Kamyaran are Kurdish and mainly follow the Shafi'i

Shafi'i

The Shafi'i madhhab is one of the schools of fiqh, or religious law, within the Sunni branch of Islam. The Shafi'i school of fiqh is named after Imām ash-Shafi'i.-Principles:...

 school of Sunni Islam

Islam

Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...

; however there is a Shia minority as well as a few Jewish families in Kamyaran.

The population of Kamyaran tripled in a matter of two decades (1975-1995) due to mass immigration from nearby villages.

Tengiwer cuneiform

Cuneiform

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 inscription is located 45 Kilometers Northwest of Kamyaran. The inscription consists of 47 lines in cuneiform which had been carved in Assyrian

Akkadian language

Akkadian is an extinct Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian, an unrelated language isolate...

. The inscription refers to the Sargon II

Sargon II

Sargon II was an Assyrian king. Sargon II became co-regent with Shalmaneser V in 722 BC, and became the sole ruler of the kingdom of Assyria in 722 BC after the death of Shalmaneser V. It is not clear whether he was the son of Tiglath-Pileser III or a usurper unrelated to the royal family...

, Assyrian King, on which his captures of Arpad, Simirra, Damacsus, Egypt and other countries have been inscribed. The inscription dates back to around the eighth century before Christ.

Sarchi is the best region located at north of Kamyaran which has the joyful weather and nature for tourists.