Nain () is a city in the Central District of Nain County,

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province,

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, serving as capital of both the county and the district.

Climate

History

The history of Nain appears to go back to pre-Islamic times, but no information about it has survived. It is famous for its big castle and its

congregational mosque A congregational mosque or Friday mosque (, ''masjid jāmi‘'', or simply: , ''jāmi‘''; ), or sometimes great mosque or grand mosque (, ''jāmi‘ kabir''; ), is a mosque for hosting the Friday noon prayers known as ''Friday prayer, jumu'ah' ...

, the

Jameh Mosque of Nain The Jāmeh Mosque of Nain (; ) is a Shi'ite Friday mosque (''jāmeh''), located in Nain, in the province of Isfahan, Iran. The mosque is located in historical city of Na’in, toward the northern edge of the inhabited area in what is now a re ...

. It was described by medieval historians to have been in the ''sardsīr'' ("cooler highland areas"), and being a subordinate to either Yazd or Isfahan, despite being part of the administration of the Fars province. The historian and geographer

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 ...

reported that the walls of Nain's castle, which are still present as mud brick remnants, were four thousand paces long. The nearby mountains' silver mines are also described by the geographers. During the

Safavid The Guarded Domains of Iran, commonly called Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire, was one of the largest and longest-lasting Iranian empires. It was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty. It is often considered the begi ...

era, the

kaolinite Kaolinite ( ; also called kaolin) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedral sheet of silica () linked through oxygen atoms to one octahedral sheet of alumina () ...

of Nain was utilized to manufacture

porcelain Porcelain (), also called china, is a ceramic material made by heating Industrial mineral, raw materials, generally including kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between . The greater strength and translucence of porcelain, relative to oth ...

at the city of

Kashan Kashan (; ) is a city in the Central District (Kashan County), Central District of Kashan County, in the northern part of Isfahan province, Isfahan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. History Earlies ...

. Under the

Buyid dynasty The Buyid dynasty or Buyid Empire was a Zaydi and later Twelver Shi'a dynasty of Daylamite origin. Founded by Imad al-Dawla, they mainly ruled over central and southern Iran and Iraq from 934 to 1062. Coupled with the rise of other Iranian dyn ...

(934–1062), the

was constructed.

Demographics

Language

The following graph depicts the language composition of the city. Naini is a Central Plateau language which is part of the

Northwestern Iranian languages The Western Iranian languages or Western Iranic languages are a branch of the Iranian languages, attested from the time of Old Persian (6th century BC) and Median. Languages The traditional Northwestern branch is a convention for non-Southweste ...

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 24,424 in 6,954 households. The following census in 2011 counted 25,379 people in 7,730 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 27,379 people in 8,906 households.

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References

Sources

* * {{Nain County, state=collapsed Populated places in Nain County Cities in Isfahan province