Sohri

The Sohri were the ruling house of the Soran emirate, also called Sohran, a Kurdish principality whose later capital was Rawanduz. According to the Sharafnama, the house descended from Kelos, an Arab of Baghdad who settled among the Kurds of Ewan.

According to the Sharafnama, the house's name came from Seng-Surh, people of the red rocks, shortened through the Kurdish word sohr into Sohran. Modern scholarship places the emirate's foundation between the 1330s and 1430s.

Around the battle of Chaldiran in 1514 the Soran seized land between Erbil and Kirkuk. In 1535 Sultan Suleiman had their ruler of Erbil, Izzeddin Sher, put to death and gave the city to Mir Husein Beg Dasini; Mir Seyfeddin of Soran later won back much of the old territory. From 1816 Emir Muhammad revived the emirate at Rawanduz, building cannon foundries and a large tribal army.