Mamasani County ( fa, شهرستان ممسنی) is in Fars 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 ...
. The capital of the county is the city of Nurabad, 180 kilometers from
Shiraz
Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 p ...
. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 162,694 in 35,145 households. The following census in 2011 counted 116,386 people in 30,928 households, by which time Rostam District had been separated from the county to form
Mamasani dialect
Mamasani Luri ( Luri: لوری ممسنی) is one of the sub-dialects of the Southern Luri dialect of the Luri language. It is spoken by Mamasani Lurs.
See also
* Bakhtiari dialect
Bakhtiari dialect is a distinct dialect of Southern Luri ...
of the Luri language.
Administrative divisions
The population history and structural changes of Mamasani County's administrative divisions over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table. The latest census shows three districts, nine rural districts, and three cities.
References
External links
* A Mamasani folk song sung by
Shusha Guppy
Shushā Guppy ( fa, شوشا گوپی; née Shamsi Assār ( fa, شمسی عصار; 24 December 1935 – 21 March 2008) was a writer, editor and a singer of Persian and Western folk songs. She lived in London from the early 1960s, until her death ...