Aveh ( fa, آوه, ''Âveh''), also known as Abeh or Haveh is a city in

Qareh Chay Rural District Qareh Chay Rural District ( fa, دهستان قره چائ) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in the Central District of Saveh County, Markazi Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia ...

, in the Central District of

Saveh County Saveh County ( fa, شهرستان ساوه, ''Ŝahrestāne Sāweh'') is located in Markazi province, Iran. The capital of the county is Saveh. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 235,843, in 63,672 households. Retrieved 5 November 2 ...

, Markazi 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 3,558, in 843 families.

History

Aveh is mentioned by several medieval geographers.

Yaqut al-Hamawi Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) ( ar, ياقوت الحموي الرومي) was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine Greek ancestry active during the late Abbasid period (12th-13th centuries). He is known fo ...

, writing in the early 1200s, described Aveh as a small town predominantly inhabited by

Shi'ites Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, most ...

, leading to conflicts with the predominantly

Sunni Sunni Islam () is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims. Its name comes from the word '' Sunnah'', referring to the tradition of Muhammad. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagr ...

city of

Saveh Saveh ( fa, ساوه, translit=Sāveh, also transliterated as ''Sāwa'') is a city in Markazi Province of Iran. It is located about southwest of Tehran. As of 2011, the city had a population of 259,030 people. History In the 7th century BC it ...

. In the 1300s,

Hamdallah Mustawfi Hamdallah Mustawfi Qazvini ( fa, حمدالله مستوفى قزوینی, Ḥamdallāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī; 1281 – after 1339/40) was a Persian official, historian, geographer and poet. He lived during the last era of the Mongol Ilkhanate, and ...

remarked on the city's fortifications and pits for storing ice, while also noting that Aveh's bread was known to be poor.Le Strange 211.

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