Soran Emirate (1399-1883 A.D) was a Kurdish principality in Southern Kurdistan Generally speaking, an emirate (Arabic imarah, plural imarat) is a territory that is administered by an emir, although in Arabic the term can be generalized to mean any province of a country that is administered by a member of the ruling class. ... The Kurds are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey (a region commonly referred to as Kurdistan). ... Prince Albert of Monaco on the left represents a principality where he wields administrative authority. ... Southern Kurdistan (or Iraqi Kurdistan) is a geo-cultural region located in present-day Northern Iraq. ...

Its Capital was the city of Rawanduz.

The present-day Region of Soran (At the Rawanduz district) in Iraqi Kurdistan was named after this Emirate. The word Soran means Red. Kurdistan is an area in the Middle East, inhabited mainly by the Kurds, covering parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, and Syria. ...

Also the Kurdish dialect Southern Kurmanji, which is commonly known in Iraqi and Iranian Kurdistan as Sorani, was named after this Emirate. Sorani is a group of Central Kurdish dialects and as such is part of the Iranian languages. ...