Aspas ( fa, اسپاس, also
Romanized as Āspās and Āsopās; also known as Āsupās) is a village in
Aspas Rural District
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Sedeh District,
Eqlid County,
Fars Province,
Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,069, in 481 families.
Aspas is in the Zagros mountain range at an altitude of 2362 m. It lies in the foothills above the
Balengan valley between the
Palangi
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range and the
Abedīn range. Aspas means ''Strong Guard'' in Persian, and the village may have been named in honor of
Aspas (Aspasia), the daughter of
Artaxerxes II of Persia, who was also the commander of his secret police.
According to
Thomas Herbert, who was in
Safavid Iran
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in the first half of the 17th century, Aspas was inhabited by some 40,000 transplanted
Christian
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Circassians and
Georgians
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[Thomas Herbert]
''Travels in Persia: 1627-1629''
Routledge, 10 okt. 2005 p 117
References
External links
Map NH 39-7 Ardakan, Iran, Series 1501, Joint Operations Graphic (Air) 1:250,000, U.S. National Imagery and Mapping Agency1st ed. reprinted May 2002.
Populated places in Eqlid County
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