Kharqan Rural District ( fa, دهستان خرقان) is a
rural district (''dehestan'') in
Bastam District
Bastam District ( fa, بخش بسطام) is a district (bakhsh) in Shahrud County, Semnan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 37,635, in 10,380 families. The District has three cities: Bastam
Bastam ( fa, بسطام, also rom ...
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Shahrud County
Shahrud County ( fa, شهرستان شاهرود) is located in Semnan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Shahrud. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including those portions of the county later split off in 2011 to form Me ...
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Semnan 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 15,936, in 4,406 families.
The rural district has 43 villages.
Famous natives
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Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani
Abu 'l-Hassan Ali ibn Ahmad (or ibn Jaʻfar) ibn Salmān al-Kharaqāni ( fa, شیخ ابوالحسن خرقانی) is one of the master Sufis of Islam. He was born in 963 (352 Hijri year) from PersianS.H. Nasr, "Iran" in History of Humanity: From ...
References
Rural Districts of Semnan Province
Shahrud County
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