Yush () is a village in
Sheykh Fazlolah-e Nuri Rural District
Sheykh Fazlolah-e Nuri Rural District () is in Baladeh District of Nur County, Mazandaran 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 ...
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Baladeh District
Baladeh District () is in Nur County, Mazandaran province, Iran
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Nur County
Nur County () is in Mazandaran
Mazandaran Province (; ) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Sari, Iran, Sari. Located along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and in the adjacent Central Alborz mountain ra ...
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Mazandaran province
Mazandaran Province (; ) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Sari. Located along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and in the adjacent Central Alborz mountain range and Hyrcanian forests, it is bordered clockw ...
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Iran
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. At the 2006 census, its population was 154, in 57 families.
Yush lies on the
Alborz Mountains
The Alborz ( ) range, also spelled as Alburz, Elburz or Elborz, is a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from the border of Azerbaijan along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea and finally runs northeast and merge ...
and is known as the birthplace of
Nima Yooshij
Nima Yooshij or Nimā Yushij (; 11 November 1895 – 6 January 1960), also called Nimā (), born Ali Esfandiari (), was a prominent Iranian poet. He is famous for his style of poetry which he popularised, called ''she'r-e now'' (, lit. "new po ...
, an influential contemporary poet and the father of the new-era poem in Iran.
On 28 May 2004 at 17:08 local time (12:38 UTC), it was the epicentre of the 6.3
Mazandaran-Qazvin earthquake, which left 35 dead and 400 injured.
References
External links
Emergency Field Assessment Mazandaran Earthquake May 30–31– Natural Disaster Taskforce
Populated places in Nur County
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