Minjavan-e Sharqi Rural District ( fa, دهستان منجوان غربی) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in

Minjavan District Minjavan District ( fa, بخش منجوان) is a district (bakhsh) in Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. its capital is Asheqlu city. The District has three rural districts (''dehestan''): Dizmar-e Sharqi Rural District, M ...

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) w ...

East Azerbaijan Province 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 ...

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 Turkm ...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 4,378 in 931 families. The rural district has 36 villages.

Further information

In the wake of

White Revolution The White Revolution ( fa, انقلاب سفید ''Enqelāb-e Sefid'') or the Shah and People Revolution ( fa, انقلاب شاه و مردم ''Enqelāb-e Shāh o Mardom'') was a far-reaching series of reforms resulting in aggressive moderniz ...

(early 1960s) many clans of Mohammad Khanlu Tribe used the north part of the district as their winter quarters. The Tribe's summer quarters were located in the mountains of the southern part, which include prime

pasture Pasture (from the Latin ''pastus'', past participle of ''pascere'', "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or s ...

s. The district's population was in steady decline since the launch of land reform policies in the early 1960s. By 2000 some villages, for instance

Garmanab Garmanab ( گرمناب) was a village in Khoda Afarin County which was abandoned by the turn of the 20th century. In late nineteenth and early twentieth century the village was inhabited by Armenians, who later emigrated to Armenia or Tabriz. Jus ...

, were already abandoned. Then, some expatriates, working as painters in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the Capital city, capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is th ...

, returned and built summer residences. At present the district is witnessing an unprecedented construction boom, a fact that can be easily noticed by comparing the included photos, both taken from Abbasabad respectively in 2009 and 2014. The general population trend in 2006-2012 period can, also, be quantitatively verified from the number of households reported in two official censuses. However, there is a significant decline in the population, which is a reflection of a general trend in the

Arasbaran Arasbaran ( fa, ارسباران ''Arasbârân'') or shortened to Arasbar ( fa, ارسبار ''Arasbâr''), meaning "The Banks of the Aras/Araxes river," also known as "Qaradagh" or "Karadagh" ( az, Qaradağ / , meaning ...

region due to the lack of jobs.

References

Rural Districts of East Azerbaijan Province Khoda Afarin County {{KhodaAfarin-geo-stub