Aveh () is a city in the Central District of

Saveh County Saveh County () is in Markazi province, Markazi province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Saveh. History After the 2011 National Census, the village of Aveh, Markazi, Aveh was elevated to the status of a city. Demographics Population At t ...

, Markazi province,

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Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, Aveh's population was 3,558 in 843 households, when it was a village in

Qareh Chay Rural District Qareh Chay Rural District () is in the Central District of Saveh County, Markazi province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west ...

. The following census in 2011 counted 3,810 people in 1,007 households. The 2016 census measured the population as 3,906 people in 1,101 households, by which time the village had been elevated to the status of a city.

History

Aveh is mentioned by several medieval geographers.

Yaqut al-Hamawi Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) () was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine ancestry active during the late Abbasid period (12th–13th centuries). He is known for his , an influential work on geography con ...

, writing in the early 1200s, described Aveh as a small town predominantly inhabited by

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, leading to conflicts with the predominantly

Sunni Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam and the largest religious denomination in the world. It holds that Muhammad did not appoint any successor and that his closest companion Abu Bakr () rightfully succeeded him as the caliph of the Mu ...

city of

Saveh Saveh () is a city in the Central District of Saveh County, Markazi province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. It is about southwest of Tehran. History In the 7th century BC it was a stronghold of the Medes. ...

. In the 1300s,

Hamdallah Mustawfi Hamdallah Mustawfi Qazvini (; 1281 – after 1339/40) was a Persian official, historian, geographer and poet. He lived during the last era of the Mongol Ilkhanate, and the interregnum that followed. A native of Qazvin, Mustawfi belonged to fami ...

remarked on the city's fortifications and pits for storing ice, while also noting that Aveh's bread was known to be poor.Le Strange 211.

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