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Diana ((クルド語:Soran), (アラビア語:ديانا)) is a town in Erbil Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. Diana is the capital of Soran district which has a population of approximately 125,000, of which 64% were refugees who returned to Iraq within the last ten years. The town has mushroomed from a small village in the 1990s, and is expected to increase within the next ten years by a further 50,000 people. The name of name Diana is derived from the Kurdish word for ''"Christian"'' since it was settled initially by Assyrian Christians. ==History== The town was originally inhabited by Assyrians albeit ruled by Kurdish Aghas. Soran District in has been flooded with returning refugees from Iran, where they fled between 1974 and 1989. The population grew from 27,000 in 1991, before the Kurdish uprising, to about 175,000 in the last fifteen years. Most of these returnees settled in and around Soran, unable to return to their villages which had been destroyed by the former regime’s army, or unwilling to return to locations still under threat of Turkish bombings and incursions and the presence of PKK forces there. The city's original name, Siddeeq was changed to Soran, Siddeeq being a camp which was constructed in the late 70s and settled with Kurdish inhabitants from with populations in surrounding areas who had been forcefully displaced by Saddam Hussein's regime. After the uprising in 1991, Siddeeq, which is an Arabic name was changed to the Kurdish name of Soran. However the city of Diyana has kept its name. Diana is located on the Hamilton Road connecting Arbil to Iran through Hajomaran (a sub-district of Choman district). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diana, Iraq」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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