Pasveh

Pasveh ( fa, پسوه, also Romanized as Pasevh and Pasooh; also known as Qal‘eh Paswah and Qal‘eh-ye Pasveh) is a village in Lahijan-e Sharqi Rural District, Lajan District, Piranshahr County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,977, in 515 families. Pasveh has a strategic location controlling the "easy" pass between the Lahijan district, in the Lesser Zab headwaters, and the Lake Urmia basin.

According to Vladimir Minorsky, Pasveh represents the name and location of the ancient Parsua kingdom. He explained the difference in name by saying that ''r''-deletion in consonant clusters is well-attested. Pasveh was a frontier outpost near the Parsua's southern border (their core territory was probably the fertile Solduz district further north).

In the early 1200s, Yaqut al-Hamawi visited Pasveh and left a description in his works. A century later, Hamdallah Mustawfi included an entry for it (here spelled ''Basavā'' or ''Pasavā'') in his ''Nuzhat al-Qulub''. He described it as a small town in the '' tuman'' of Maragheh whose surrounding agricultural district produced grain, grapes, and some other fruits; he said its tax value was assessed at 25,000 dinars. Pasveh later features in the accounts of Kurdish tribal feuds in the Sharafnama. Much later, when Minorsky visited Pasveh in 1911, he described it as a "desolate" town with a "dilapidated" fort.

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Populated places in Piranshahr County

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