Duzduzan ( fa, دوزدوزان; also
Romanize
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d as Dūzdūzān) is a city in
Mehraban District,
Sarab County
Sarab County ( fa, شهرستان سراب) is in East Azerbaijan 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 t ...
,
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 Armeni ...
,
Iran
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. At the 2006
census
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, its population was 3,557, in 664 families.
Geography
Duzduzan is located in the mountains of
Arasbaran
Arasbaran ( fa, ارسباران ''Arasbârân'') or shortened to Arasbar ( fa, ارسبار ''Arasbâr''), meaning "The Banks of the Aras/Araxes river," also known as "Qaradagh" or "Karadagh" ( az, Qaradağ / , meaning ...
in north-western Iran on the highway between
Ardabil
Ardabil (, fa, اردبیل, Ardabīl or ''Ardebīl'') is a city in northwestern Iran, and the capital of Ardabil Province. As of the 2022 census, Ardabil's population was 588,000. The dominant majority in the city are ethnic Iranian Azerbaija ...
and
Tabriz
Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the sixth-most-populous city in Iran. In the Quru River valley in Iran's historic Azerbaijan region between long ridges of vo ...
. Although not on the river it is within the drainage basin of the
Aji Chay
Aji or AJI may refer to:
Location
* Aji (town), Tieling County, Liaoning, China
*Aji Island, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
*Aji, Kagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
* Aji River (disambiguation), rivers with the same name
Other
* Aji (Go), a latent t ...
. Because of its high elevation it has a climate that is generally cold and rainy. The city is 15 km by road east of the village of
Kurdkandi and 32 km by road east of
Bostanabad
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. Duzduzan is 37 km by road west of the city of
Sarab, the
county seat
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.
Earthquakes
The area is earthquake prone as it lies on the Duzduzan Fault, in the North Tabriz fault system,
just north of the
plate boundary where the
Arabian Plate
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It is one of the three continental plates (along with the African and the Indian Plates) that have been moving northward in geological history and colliding ...
is pushing against the
Eurasian Plate
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. The town was heavily shaken in:
* 1721 by the
Shebli earthquake (7.3
MW)
* 1780 by the Tabriz earthquake (7.4 )
* 1786 by the Marand-Mishu earthquake (6.3 )
* 1807 by a quake on the Tasujreverse fault (5.5 )
* 1879 by a quake on the South Bozqush reverse fault (6.7 )
References
Populated places in Sarab County
Cities in East Azerbaijan Province
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