Shahrud County ( fa, شهرستان شاهرود) is located in
Semnan 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
Shahrud
The Shahrud (Turkish ''Şehrud'' from Persian شاهرود, DMG ''šāh-i rūd'' or ''šāh-rūd'') was a short-necked lute, illustrated in the '' Surname-i Hümayun'', resembling an oud or barbat, but being much larger. The larger size gave t ...
. At the 2006 census, the county's population (including those portions of the county later split off in 2011 to form
Meyami CountyOfficial government announcement
) was 225,007, in 62,196 households.[ Retrieved 7 November 2022] The following census in 2011 counted 238,830 people, in 70,598 households.
Administrative divisions
Notable natives and residents
*Bayazid Bastami
Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr bin ʿĪsā bin Surūshān al-Bisṭāmī (al-Basṭāmī) (d. 261/874–5 or 234/848–9), commonly known in the Iranian world as Bāyazīd Bisṭāmī ( fa, بایزید بسطامی), was a PersianWalbridge, John. "S ...
, 9th century Sufi
*Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani
Abu 'l-Hassan Ali ibn Ahmad (or ibn Jaʻfar) ibn Salmān al-Kharaqāni ( fa, شیخ ابوالحسن خرقانی) is one of the master Sufis of Islam. He was born in 963 (352 Hijri year) from PersianS.H. Nasr, "Iran" in History of Humanity: From ...
(963-1033), Sufi
*Abbas Foroughi Bastami
Abbas may refer to:
People
* Abbas (name), list of people with the name, including:
** Abbas ibn Ali, Popularly known as Hazrat-e-Abbas (brother of Imam Hussayn)
**Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, uncle of Muhammad
** Mahmoud Abbas (born 1935), Pal ...
(1798-1857), poet
References
Counties of Semnan Province
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