Bandar Gavater ( fa, بندر گواتر, also

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d as Shahrak Maskūnī-ye Gavāter; also known as Gavātar, Gavāter, Govātar, Gvātar, and Gwātar) is a village in

Sand-e Mir Suiyan Rural District Sand-e Mir Suiyan Rural District ( fa, دهستان سندميرثويان) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in Dashtiari County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also cal ...

Dashtiari District Dashtiari County ( fa, شهرستان دشتیاری) is in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Negur. At the 2006 census, the region's population (as Dashtiari District of Chabahar County Chaba ...

Dashtiari County Dashtiari County ( fa, شهرستان دشتیاری) is in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Negur. At the 2006 census, the region's population (as Dashtiari District of Chabahar County Chaba ...

, Sistan and Baluchestan Province,

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. At the 2006 census, its population was 437, in 85 families. The village is located on

Gwadar Bay Gwadar Bay ( ur, خلیج گوادر) is located in the Gulf of Oman on the maritime border of Pakistan and Iran. The name is from Persian, ''Khalij-e Gavader'' or "Gulf of Gwadar" on the Arabian Sea. It is an inlet of the Arabian Sea indenting ...

, near the border with

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Historical features

Gwatar was a

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military base before it became a village. The old village of Gwatar was a trading base before it was devastated in a war between its

Sardarzahi Sardarzahi or Sardarzāi ( Persian: سردارزهی) ( Balochi: سددازهی) ( حمید الله سردارزهی) refers to sardars , rulers or Hakomzāts in south eastern province of Baluchistan of Iran. Sardarzahis were originally from Jadg ...

rulers, Sardar Jalalkhan and Sardar Mirsuban. After the war all of its population migrated to

Jiwani Jiwani (Urdu, bal, ) is a town and commercial port that is located along the Gulf of Oman in the Gwadar District of the Balochistan province in Pakistan. The town is also next to the Iran-Pakistan border. The town has a total population of 25,00 ...

in Pakistan.

Historical features

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