Zand (tribe)

The Zand tribe (Persian: طایفه زند) is a Laki-speaking Kurdish tribe^[1]^[2]^[3] mainly populating the countryside of Khanaqin in Iraq and in the provinces of Kurdistan and Hamadan of Iran.^[4]^[5]^[1]

^ ^a ^b "نگاهی به تغییرات زیستی و اسمی قوم لک به گواهی قدمت تاریخ" (in Persian). ILNA. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
^ Hamzeh'ee, M. Reza (1990). The Yaresan: A Sociological, Historical and Religio-historical Study of a Kurdish Community. p. 62. ISBN 9783922968832.
^ Soane, E. B. (1918). Notes on the tribes of Southern Kurdistan. Baghdad. p. 37.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Archibald Roosevelt (1944). "Kurdish tribal map of Iraq : showing the Iraq portion of Kurdistan and the major Kurdish tribal divisions within Iraq". Yale University.
^ Edmonds, Cecil John (1957). Kurds, Turks, and Arabs. Oxford University Press. p. 279.