Sherwana Castle

After the Mamluk Vali of Baghdad, Suleiaman Pasha, dealt a crushing defeat to the Persian occupation of Abbas Mirza Qajar of Northern Mesopotamia, and put to flight the Babans in 1850, Mohamed Pasha Jaff along with the Jaff nomads were allowed to dwell in the Shahrizor unharassed by the Ottomans or Persians in any way.

Their nomadic caravans were allowed pasture from Khanaqin and Qizil Rubat to Panjwin in the Shahrizor region of Kurdistan.

The Russians would arm them and send them back to agitate the Shahrizor and create anarchy.

During the British Occupation much of the Kurdish population would revolt under Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji, whose power base was in Suliamania in 1918, 1922-1924, including segments of the Jaff tribe.

Further damage occurred as the result of heavy rain in 2014 which affected the walls, causing them to crack.