Chaleh Tarkhan () is a village in, and the capital of,
Chaleh Tarkhan Rural District of
Qaleh Now District of
Ray County,
Tehran
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province,
Iran
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.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 658 in 172 households, when it was in
Qaleh Now Rural District of
Kahrizak District.
The following census in 2011 counted 696 people in 195 households.
The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 601 people in 180 households,
by which time the rural district had been separated from the district in the establishment of Qaleh Now District. Chaleh Tarkhan was transferred to Chaleh Tarkhan Rural District created in the new district.
History
Stucco wall decorations, dating from the
Sassanid Empire
The Sasanian Empire (), officially Eranshahr ( , "Empire of the Iranians"), was an Iranian empire that was founded and ruled by the House of Sasan from 224 to 651. Enduring for over four centuries, the length of the Sasanian dynasty's reign ...
, are preserved at Chaleh Tarkhan. In the late 1930s, Erich Schmidt of the
University of Pennsylvania's Penn Museum
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, in collaboration with the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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, led an expedition that excavated Chaleh Tarkhan.
See also
Notes
References
Populated places in Ray County, Iran
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