Minjavan District ( fa, بخش منجوان) is a district (

bakhsh A ( fa, بخش, also romanized as ) is a third-level administrative division of Iran. While sometimes translated as "county," it is more accurately translated as "district," similar to a township in the United States or a district of En ...

) in

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 ...

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 Turkmeni ...

. its capital is

Asheqlu Asheqlu ( fa, عاشقلو, also Romanized as ‘Āsheqlū; also known as Ashagly, Ashakhli, Ashāqlī, Asheghloo Meikhan, and Āsheqlī) is a village in Minjavan-e Gharbi Rural District of Minjavan District, Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaij ...

city. The District has three

rural district Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Ad ...

s (''dehestan''):

Dizmar-e Sharqi Rural District Dizmar-e Sharqi Rural District ( fa, دهستان دیزمار شرقی) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in Minjavan District, Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,888, in 641 families. ...

Minjavan-e Gharbi Rural District Minjavan-e Sharqi Rural District ( fa, دهستان منجوان غربی) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in Minjavan District, Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 4,378 in 931 families. ...

, and

Minjavan-e Sharqi Rural District Minjavan-e Sharqi Rural District ( fa, دهستان منجوان شرقي) is in Minjavan District of Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. At the National Census of 2006, its population was 5,727 in 1,376 households, when it ...

Population

The online edition of the Dehkhoda Dictionary, quoting Iranian Army files, reports a population of 8464 people in late 1940s. At that time

Janan Lu , settlement_type = Village , image_skyline = Janan Lu village in October.jpg , imagesize = , image_caption = The village of Janan Lu in October 2011 , pushpin_map = Iran , mapsize ...

, Dash Bashi, and Setan were the most important villages of the district. At the 2006 census, its population was 12,993, in 2,948 families. A recent statistics, conducted in 2012, reports the population as 12524 people, who live in 79 villages. Moreover, there are 22 villages which are no more populated.

History

The only noteworthy allusion to the district in official records relates to an appeal by the inhabitants of the district to the interior minister of Iran, requesting protection from the abuses by

Mohammad Khanlu Mohammad Khanlu (Moḥammad-Ḵānlū) ( محمد خانلو) is one of the six major Tribes of Arasbaran. It is a Turkicized Kurdish tribe dwelling for the most part in the Arasbaran region, in East Azerbaijan Province of Iran. Its summer quarte ...

family.'. The district was formed in December 2010 by the approval of Iranian government.

References

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