Yaft Rural District ( fa, دهستان يافت) is a

rural district Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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

(''dehestan'') in

Moradlu District Moradlu District ( fa, بخش مرادلو) is a district (bakhsh) in Meshgin Shahr County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 13,750, in 2,973 families. The District has one city Moradlu. The District has three rural ...

Meshgin Shahr County Meshgin Shahr County ( fa, شهرستان مشگین‌شهر) is located in Ardabil province, Iran. The capital of the county is Meshginshahr Meshgin Shahr ( fa, مشگين شهر, also Romanized as Meshgīn Shahr; also known as Meshkīn Sha ...

, Ardabil 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 3,493, in 737 families. The rural district has 13 villages. 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 ...

listed Yāft 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. ...

'' as a forested district comprising about 20 villages. He wrote that it had a warm climate, produced grain and some fruit, and was assessed at a tax value of 4,000

dinar The dinar () is the principal currency unit in several countries near the Mediterranean Sea, and its historical use is even more widespread. The modern dinar's historical antecedents are the gold dinar and the silver dirham, the main coin of ...

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Rural Districts of Ardabil Province Meshgin Shahr County {{MeshginShahr-geo-stub