Ahmed Mendilawi

The site (Alzendan) on the road between it  and the town of Baquba, which is due to the period (Sasanian) as well as other (80) …

archaeological sites belonging to the same period  indicates that Shahraban  is  a city with historical immemorial depth .Abdul Razzak Abbas, in his work titled  (the emergence of Iraq's cities and their development) stated that it is  one of the cities founded by the Sassanid in Iraq, also called (_ Shahraban) (and  Shara Ban) (and Shara wan) the nomination of its people. As stated in ( Mu,ajam Albuldan) (Glossary of countries) that Shahraban was (a large village and great with palm trees and orchards). It was once a big city which equaled the greatness of Baghdad. It has gained increasing importance  because of its geographical location on the road to Khorasan where  there was  a break station  for the pilgrims and visitors from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan to Iraq and Saudi Arabia to visit the holy shrines as well as the House of God.

The residents of Shahraban are  mixture of Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen . The Kurds represent the majority of population. The scholar Muhammed Amin Zaki cited in his summary of the Kurds and Kurdistan: (there is a large part of the Kurds in Shahraban and a group of Suramary clan inhabit the city, and in the village ( Abu Jisrah) located near to it . In a study  by Abbas Suleiman  it is stated that the percentage of Kurds in the city is 60% of the total population and the rest are of the Arabs and Turkmen ----- The town has been subjected to  the forced displacement and migration, where groups of inhabitants , such as Zangana,  Suramary, Zargoosh, Gurran, and Qaraloos were displaced and that led to the low percentage of Kurds according to the policy planned and  pursued by the previous regime in order to  implement demographic changes  on the Kurdish cities and areas bordering the Arabic Iraq.