Chaleh Tarkhan ( fa, چاله طرخان, also
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d as Chāleh Ţarkhān; also known as Chāl Ţarkhān and Chāh Ţarkhān) is a village in
Chaleh Tarkhan Rural District
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Qaleh Now District
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Ray County,
Tehran Province,
Iran
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. According to the 2006 Iranian census, its population was 658, with 172 families.
Chaleh Tarkhan Rural District
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's seat is located in this village.
History
Stucco wall decorations, dating from the
Sassanid Empire
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, are preserved at Chaleh Tarkhan. In the late 1930s, Erich Schmidt of the
University of Pennsylvania's Penn Museum
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, in collaboration with the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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, led an expedition that excavated Chaleh Tarkhan.
References
Populated places in Ray County, Iran
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