Chegini Kurds
Chegini Kurds are a mostly sedentary Kurdish tribe who live in Loristan Province and scattered around Qazvin Province and Fars Province in Iran. The tribe also has a presence in Kurdistan Region and Kirkuk.
map which includes the Chegini north of Sulaymaniyah
Not much information exists on the origins of the tribe, but Oskar Mann argued in 1910 that the tribe was of Romani origin but had gone through a process of Kurdification after migrating to Kurdistan from northwestern Iran. Prior to that, Charles MacGregor classified the tribe as ethnic Kurdish in his topographical and ethnographical oeuvre from 1872.
During the reign of Tahmasp I, the Chegini Kurds settled in Khorasan as they were on their way to India. In Khorasan, they prospered under the protection of the shah. In 1597, Sharafkhan Bidlisi wrote that the tribe lived by brigandage and intercepting the roads. Moreover, unlike other Kurdish tribes, they had no emir or mirza which could lead the tribe.
