Mirawdale

Mirawdale, Mirawdeli ميراو ده لي also known as Agha, Axa or written as Mirawdeli is a Kurdish tribe in Iraqi Kurdistan. The tribe has an estimated 5000+ families, and they are mainly located in the Peshdar area on the border of Iranian Kurdistan. Some are located in Iranian Kurdistan near the town of Sardasht. The Influence of the family within the Kurdish Region of Iraq has been widely noted and their history dates back to the Zoroastrian times.

Kamal Mirawdale, a Political Analyst, Author and Poet, son of the great well known Poet Mammand Aghai ("Fanie") who is well known in Kurdistan was one of the Iraqi Kurdistan Presidential candidates in 2009. Kamal Mirawdeli received majority of votes in the Sulaimaniya and Soran regions.

History

Hamad Agha is considered the father of the tribe and had married a Russian woman later having 14 sons.

In the early 1990s the tribe was in conflict with other tribes in the Kurdish Region, as a result many influential Mirawdale members fled to the border of Iran where they stayed for nearly 3 years.

Since the late 1990s, many of Mirawdalies fled Iraqi Kurdistan due to the political and financial situation in the area and they are now mostly settled in Europe, the USA and Canada.

Demographics

Due to the political and financial situation in Iraqi Kurdistan, numbers of the tribe fled the country and they were mainly in their early 20s which had high impact to the financial situation and they are still settled in the countries they went to.