Mūchesh

Muchesh stands on a broad plain in the Kurdish country south of Sanandaj. The older settlement grew around a mound known locally as Qaleh, the site of a remembered fort. According to local accounts, the Amirabad River south of the village supplied a moat around it, and the houses once clustered close to the fortified hill. Fields spread across the plain beyond, enclosed by the mountain country of the central Zagros.