Zand District ( fa, بخش زند) 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
Malayer County
Malayer County ( fa, شهرستان ملایر) is located in Hamadan province, Iran. The capital of the county is Malayer
Malayer ( fa, ملایر, Malāyer), formerly Dowlatabad ( fa, دولتآباد, Doulatābād, also Romanized as Dowl ...
,
Hamadan 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 14,426, in 3,695 families.
[ن] The district has one city:
Zangeneh. 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Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of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''):
Kamazan-e Olya Rural District
Kamazan-e Olya Rural District ( fa, دهستان كمازان عليا) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in Zand District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Pe ...
,
Kamazan-e Sofla Rural District
Kamazan-e Sofla Rural District ( fa, دهستان كمازان سفلي) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in Zand District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called P ...
, and
Kamazan-e Vosta Rural District
Kamazan-e Vosta Rural District ( fa, دهستان كمازان وسطي) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in Zand District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called ...
.
It is the namesake of the
Zand dynasty
The Zand dynasty ( fa, سلسله زندیه, ') was an Iranian dynasty, founded by Karim Khan Zand (1751–1779) that initially ruled southern and central Iran in the 18th century. It later quickly came to expand to include much of the rest of ...
.
References
Malayer County
Districts of Hamadan Province
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