Sain Qaleh ( fa, صائين قلعه, also
Romanize
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d as Şā’īn Qal‘eh; also known as Sain-Kalekh and Khorosan) is a city in the
Central District of
Abhar County,
Zanjan Province,
Iran
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. At the 2006 census, its population was 11,083, in 2,896 families.
The 14th-century author
Hamdallah Mustawfi
Hamdallah Mustawfi Qazvini ( fa, حمدالله مستوفى قزوینی, Ḥamdallāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī; 1281 – after 1339/40) was a Persian official, historian, geographer and poet. He lived during the last era of the Mongol Ilkhanate, and ...
mentioned Sa'in Qal'eh in his ''
Nuzhat al-Qulub
The ''Nuzhat al-Qulub'' (also spelled ''Nozhat al-Qolub''; fa, نزهةالقلوب, "Hearts' Bliss") is a Persian geographical treatise written in the 1340s by Hamdallah Mustawfi. It is the earliest surviving work to have a map focused on Iran. ...
'': he referred to "the village called Quhūd, which the Mongols call Sāin Qal'ah, and which is the chief of all those neighboring hamlets".
He also wrote that it was close to the castle of
Sarjahan.
Notable people
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Ibrahim al-Musawi al-Zanjani (1925 – 1999), Islamic scholar and writer.
References
Sain Qaleh (Persian: صائين قلعه, also Romanized as Şā’īn Qal‘eh; also known as Sain-Kalekh and Khorosan)
is a city in the Central District of Abhar County, Zanjan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 20,083, in 4,896 families.
Populated places in Abhar County
Cities in Zanjan Province
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