Kaleybar County ( fa, شهرستان کلیبر) is located in
East Azerbaijan
East Azerbaijan Province ( fa, استان آذربایجان شرقی ''Āzarbāijān-e Sharqi''; az-Arab, شرقی آذربایجان اوستانی) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is located in Iranian Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia ...
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 ...
. The capital of the county is
Kaleybar
Kaleybar ( fa, كليبر) ( az, كليبر); also Romanized as Kalībar, Kalipar, Keleibar, and Keleivar) is a city and capital of Kaleybar County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. According to the 2006 census, Kaleybar, with a popula ...
. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including those portions of the county later split off to form
Khoda Afarin County
Khoda Afarin County ( fa, شهرستان خداآفرین) is in East Azerbaijan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Khomarlu. At the 2006 census, the county's population (as Khoda Afarin District of Kaleybar County) was ...
) was 87,259, in 19,250 households.
[ Retrieved 3 November 2022] The following census in 2011 counted 48,837 people, in 12,760 households.
At the 2016 census, the county's population was 46,125, in 14,145 households.
In addition to the capital city, the county is noted for the
Arasbaran forests protected area[Adamec, Ludwig W. (1976) ''Historical Gazetteer of Iran: Tehran and Northwestern Iran'' Akademische Drucku. Verlagsanstalt, Graz, Austria, page 326, ] and the
Bazz Galasi, the fortress of
Babak Khorramdin
, native_name_lang =
, birth_date = 795 or 798
, birth_place = Ardabil, Abbasid Caliphate
, spouse = Banu
, death_date = probably 7 January 838 (age 40 or 43)
, death_place = Samarra, Abbasid Caliphate
, years_active ...
.
[Burke, Andrew and Elliott. Mark (2008) ''Iran'' Lonely Planet, Footscray, Victoria, Australia]
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Administrative divisions
References
Counties of East Azerbaijan Province
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