Sarpol-e Zahab County ( fa, شهرستان سرپل ذهاب, ''Šaharestâne Sarpole Zahâb''; Sarpell-i zahaw ( Kurdish: سه‌رپێڵی زه‌هاو, ''Serpêllî Zehaw'') is in Kermanshah province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of

Sarpol-e Zahab Sarpol-e Zahab ( fa, سرپل ذهاب, ''Sarpole Zahâb''; ku, Serpêllî Zehaw, ; also romanized as Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb, Sar-e Pol-e Z̄ahāb, and Sar-ī-Pūl Zūhāb; also known as Pol-e Z̄ahāb, Sarpole-Zahab, Pol-e Z̄ohāb, Sarī-Pūl, and ...

, whose people are adherents of Shia, Sunni and Yarsan. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 81,428 in 18,233 households. The following census in 2011 counted 85,616 people in 21,677 households. At the 2016 census, the county's population was 85,342 in 23,696 households, by which time Jeygaran Rural District and Sarqaleh Rural District had been separated from

Salas-e Babajani County Salas-e Babajani County ( fa, شهرستان ثلاث باباجانی; Salasi Bawajani ( ku, شارستانی سەلاسی باوەجانی) is located in Kermanshah province, Kermanshah province, Iran. The capital of the county is Tazehabad. A ...

to join Sarpol-e Zahab County.

Administrative divisions

The population history and structural changes of Sarpol-e Zahab County's administrative divisions over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table. The latest census shows two districts, eight rural districts, and one city.

Archaeological findings

Archaeologists published in the journal Antiquity in August 2019 about the discovery of a defensive wall named “

Gawri wall The Gawri Wall ( ku, دیواری گەوری, Persian: دیوار گَوری) was a defensive fortification built and in use between the 4th and 6th centuries during the rule of the Sasanians and Parthians. The structure's ruins, which run the le ...

” or “Gawri Chen Wall” which was found near the present-day Iranian-Iraqi border and stretched about 115 kilometers. It is estimated that, the wall was built during the rule of the

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or Sasanians. According to Sajjad Alibeigi, “With an estimated volume of approximately one million cubic meters of stone, it would have required significant resources in terms of workforce, materials and time, remnants of structures, now destroyed, are visible in places along the wall. These may have been associated turrets

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or buildings”.

References

{{Sarpol-e Zahab County, state=collapsed Counties of Kermanshah Province

Administrative divisions

Archaeological findings

See also

References