Iranshahr ( fa, ايرانشهر, bal, اڃرانشهر, also

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d as Īrānshahr; formerly, Pahrah, Fahrej, and Qal'eh-ye Nāşerī) is an

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 ...

ian city which serves as the capital of

Iranshahr County , settlement_type = County , image_skyline = , imagesize = , image_caption = , image_map = Iranshahr County Locator Map.svg , image_map1 = IranSistanBaluchistan-SVG.svg , map_c ...

, Sistan and Baluchestan Province. As of 2010 the population of Iranshahr was 100,000. The city is predominantly inhabited by ethnic Baloch speaking the

Balochi language Balochi or Baluchi () is an Iranian language spoken primarily in the Balochistan region of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. In addition, there are speakers in Oman, the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Turkmenistan, East Africa and in diaspor ...

. Prior to 1935, the city was referred to as Pahrah ( fa, پهرہ), also spelt Poora, Poorah, and Pura, meaning "defence" in

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

.https://www.vajehyab.com/moein/%D9%BE%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%87 The name was changed to Iranshahr by

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ( fa, محمدرضا پهلوی, ; 26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980), also known as Mohammad Reza Shah (), was the last ''Shah'' (King) of the Imperial State of Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow in the Irani ...

in around 1941. Pahrah is the site where

Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to ...

celebrated with and regrouped his troops after his

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

n conquests.

Bampur Bampur ( bal, بُنپور, fa, بمپور, also Romanized as Bampūr and Bampoor) is a city in and capital of Bampur County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 9,073, in 1,664 families. Location It is ...

, where the ancient Bampur

fort A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is also used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin ''fortis'' ("strong") and ''facere'' ...

is located, is nearby the city.

Climate

Iranshahr has a

hot desert climate The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification ''BWh'' and ''BWk''), is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation. The typically bald, rocky, or sandy surfaces in desert ...

(

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''BWh'') with extremely hot summers and mild winters. Precipitation is very low, and mostly falls in winter.

References

{{Portal, Iran Populated places in Iranshahr County Cities in Sistan and Baluchestan Province