Palangan, Kurdistan

Palangan (, ; پاڵنگان), also known as Patagān, Patakān, and Tangān, is a Kurdish village in Kurdistan Province, Iran. Its population was 821, with 194 families, in the 2006 Iranian census. There is a site near the village that contains the ruins of an ancient fort. Residents speak the endangered Hawrami dialect of the Gorani language. The village dates back to pre-Islamic times and was an administrative center in the Principality of Ardalan.