Farashband () is a city in the Central District of Farashband County, Fars province,

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, serving as capital of both the county and the district. The city is at an altitude of .

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 national census, the city's population was 17,142 in 3,762 households. The following census in 2011 counted 18,492 people in 4,700 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 20,320 people in 5,717 households.

Overview

Farashband is one of the Fars province cities which is located 166 km south-west of

Shiraz Shiraz (; ) is the List of largest cities of Iran, fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars province, which has been historically known as Pars (Sasanian province), Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the popu ...

. It neighbours from the north with Kazeroon, from the west with

Bushehr Bushehr (; ) is a port city in the Central District (Bushehr County), Central District of Bushehr County, Bushehr province, Bushehr province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. Etymology The roots of the n ...

(dashti county), from the south with Khonj and Mohr and the east with Qir and Firuzabad. Its height above sea level is and its area is approximately about . The climate is hot and dry, with annual average temperature of 25 °C. Citrus orchards, especially palm and Ghasb zahedi call into existence some tourism prospects for this region. In addition, the region's nomads have created a beautiful space and the emergence of the hand-woven like Gabbeh, Glim and Jajim. Language is mostly Tajik persian, Also the

Qashqai language Qashqai (قشقایی ديلى, ''Qašqāyī dili'', pronounced in English as , and also spelled Qaşqay, Qashqayi, Kashkai, Kashkay, Qašqāʾī, by Michael Knüppel, by Gerhard Doerfer and Qashqa'i or Kaşkay) is an Oghuz Turkic language spo ...

is spoken here, too. Several tribes live in Farashband such as Tork and Pars. Nearly 25,000 nomadics inhabit for 7–8 months in pastures every year. Qashqais include some tribes such as Amale, Shesh bluki, Farsimadan, and Ardkapan. Furthermore the rest of the population are of the Tajik tribe(most of the city). The city has natural gas resources and its economy is based on agriculture, gardening (palm), and carpet weaving. Farashband has a history of 1600 years. Monuments left indicate this fact in this city. Despite the great antiquity, due to lack of resources and historical documents, it is considered younger than other cities. People have always believed that the city was created during the reign of

Bahram Gur Bahram V (also spelled Wahram V or Warahran V; ), also known as Bahram Gur (New Persian: , "Bahram the onager unter), was the Sasanian King of Kings (''shahanshah'') from 420 to 438. The son of the incumbent Sasanian shah Yazdegerd I (), Bahram ...

(

Sasanian Empire The Sasanian Empire (), officially Eranshahr ( , "Empire of the Iranian peoples, Iranians"), was an List of monarchs of Iran, Iranian empire that was founded and ruled by the House of Sasan from 224 to 651. Enduring for over four centuries, th ...

). Monuments with the chahartaq architecture show this fact. There are several archaeological sites such as: *Chahar Tagh gangi (four-arched) related to Sassani period *Farrashband's bath *Chahar Tagh naghare khaneh *ChaharTagh Rahni5-ChaharTagh Gonbad *wind mill *goldsmiths Ghallat related to Afsharian period Most tourism prospects and religious area is consist of Konarmalek four-arched, tol gangi four arched, Zayerhosseini four-arched, Khormayak, Gonbad, Ghanatbagh, Rahni four-arched, Barmefarhad spring, Abpa spring, mountain park, emamzade holy shrine (Agham shahid) shahzade tayyeb holy shrine (zeinalabedin), Shahaziz holy shrine (to Baghi), Seyyed Ahmad holy shrine, Seyyed Mohammad holy shrine, Alibakhsi, Pirgheib, Mohamnad (khaniak), Agha Mohammad (khorab), Amir Shahsavar (dezhgah) and Abbolghasem (Dehram) holy shrines. According to a 1939 publication of the anthropologist Henry Field, 2,000

Circassians The Circassians or Circassian people, also called Cherkess or Adyghe (Adyghe language, Adyghe and ), are a Northwest Caucasian languages, Northwest Caucasian ethnic group and nation who originated in Circassia, a region and former country in t ...

lived in Farashband.FIELD, H. (1939). CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF IRAN. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History. Anthropological Series, 29(1), p. 209. from http://www.jstor.org/stable/29782234

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