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Central District (Abhar County)
The Central District of Abhar County ( fa, بخش مرکزی شهرستان ابهر) is a district (bakhsh) in Abhar County, Zanjan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 130,278, in 34,051 families. The District has three cities: Abhar, Sain Qaleh Sain Qaleh ( fa, صائين قلعه, also Romanized as Şā’īn Qal‘eh; also known as Sain-Kalekh and Khorosan) is a city in the Central District of Abhar County, Zanjan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 11,083, in 2,89 ..., and Hidaj. The District has five rural districts (''dehestan''): Abharrud Rural District, Darsajin Rural District, Dowlatabad Rural District, Howmeh Rural District, and Sain Qaleh Rural District. References Districts of Zanjan Province Abhar County {{Abhar-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bakhsh
A ( fa, بخش, also romanized as ) is a third-level administrative division of Iran. While sometimes translated as "county," it is more accurately translated as "district," similar to a township in the United States or a district of England. In Iran, the provinces (first-level divisions) (استان, ''ostān'') consist of several counties (second-level divisions) (شهرستان, ''shahrestān''), and the counties consist of one or more districts (third-level divisions) (بخش, ''bakhsh''). A district consists of a combination of cities (شهر ''shahr'') and rural districts (دهستان, ''dehestān'') (fourth-level divisions). The official governor of a district is called a ''bakhshdar'', the head of the ''bakhshdari'' office. Rural districts are a collection of villages and their surrounding lands. One of the cities of the county is named its capital. To better understand such subdivisions, the following table may be helpful. Below is the 2006 structure of Khash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abhar County
Abhar County ( fa, شهرستان ابهر) is in Zanjan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Abhar. اطلس گیتاشناسی استانهای ایران At the 2006 census, the county's population was 158,544 in 41,333 households. The following census in 2011 counted 169,176 people in 49,478 households. At the 2016 census, the county's population was 151,528 in 47,329 households, by which time Soltaniyeh District had been separated from the county to form |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Great fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abhar
Abhar ( fa, ابهر) is a city in the Zanjan Province of Iran. It has historically served as a place of importance due to lying right between the cities of Qazvin and Zanjan. Name "Abhar" is a combination of the words ''āb'' (water) and ''har'' (mill), due to the various water mills in the area. In the 10th-century geography book '' Hudud al-'Alam'', the name is spelt as "Awhar". Yaqut al-Hamawi (died 1229) likewise reports that the Persians called the city "Awhar". History Foundation and pre-Islamic history The Abhar-rud valley has remains and artifacts that date back to the 2nd millennium BC. Abhar's ancient origins are further demonstrated by the fact that it is linked by Islamic-era writers to mythological and semi-mythical individuals in Kayanian era. In his ''Tarikh-i guzida'', Hamdallah Mustawfi (died after 1339/40) reports that the founder of Abhar was the Kayanian ruler, Dara II, whose historical counterpart is the Achaemenid ruler Darius III (). However, in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sain Qaleh
Sain Qaleh ( fa, صائين قلعه, also Romanized as Şā’īn Qal‘eh; also known as Sain-Kalekh and Khorosan) is a city in the Central District of Abhar County, Zanjan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 11,083, in 2,896 families. The 14th-century author Hamdallah Mustawfi mentioned Sa'in Qal'eh in his ''Nuzhat al-Qulub The ''Nuzhat al-Qulub'' (also spelled ''Nozhat al-Qolub''; fa, نزهةالقلوب, "Hearts' Bliss") is a Persian geographical treatise written in the 1340s by Hamdallah Mustawfi. It is the earliest surviving work to have a map focused on Iran. ...'': he referred to "the village called Quhūd, which the Mongols call Sāin Qal'ah, and which is the chief of all those neighboring hamlets". He also wrote that it was close to the castle of Sarjahan. Notable people * Ibrahim al-Musawi al-Zanjani (1925 – 1999), Islamic scholar and writer. References Sain Qaleh (Persian: صائين قلعه, also Romanized as Şā’īn Qal‘e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hidaj
Hidaj ( fa, هيدج; also Haiyeh ( fa, هَيا), also Romanized as Hayā and Khiya) is a city in the Central District of Abhar County, Zanjan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 11,798, in 3,011 families. References Populated places in Abhar County Cities in Zanjan Province {{Abhar-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rural Districts Of Iran
Dehestan ( fa, دهستان, lit=rural district, also Romanized as "dehestān") is a type of administrative division of Iran. It is above the village and under the bakhsh A ( fa, بخش, also romanized as ) is a third-level administrative division of Iran. While sometimes translated as "county," it is more accurately translated as "district," similar to a township in the United States or a district of En .... , there were 2,400 dehestans in Iran. References Subdivisions of Iran Types of administrative division {{Iran-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abharrud Rural District
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Darsajin Rural District
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Dowlatabad Rural District (Zanjan Province)
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Howmeh Rural District (Abhar County)
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