KALHOR is a Kurdish tribe in the southernmost part of Persian Kurdistan. The Kalhor were an important tribe in Safavid times. Ely Soans and Hyacinth Louis Rabino described it as the most powerful tribe in the province of Kermānšāh, and Henry Rawlinson as “one of the most ancient, if not the most ancient, of the tribes of Kurdistan”. When the Kalhor tribe was still fully ...nomadic, its winter quarters were around Qasr-e Sirin