Farashband
{{Short description|City in Fars province, Iran}}
{{redirect|Farrash, Iran|the village in Kermanshah province|Farrash, Kermanshah{{!}}Farrash|the administrative division of Fars province|Farashband County}}
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Farashband ({{langx|fa|فراشبند}}){{efn|Also romanized as Farrāshband; also known as Farāsh and Farrāsh{{GEOnet3|-3062746}}}} is a city in the Central District of Farashband County, Fars province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.{{cite report|title=Approving the following divisional changes and reforms in Fars province|language=fa|website=rc.majlis.ir|via=Islamic Parliament Research Center|url=https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/122800|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413144644/https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/122800|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Political-Defense Commission of the Government Board|last=Aref|first=Mohammad Reza|archive-date=13 April 2014|orig-date=Approved 13 December 1381|date=c. 2014|id=Proposal 1.4.42.99761; Notification 58538/T26118H|access-date=8 December 2023}} The city is at an altitude of {{convert|775|m|ft}}.[https://www.fallingrain.com/world/IR/07/Farrashband.html Farashband - Falling Rain Genomics]
Demographics
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At the time of the 2006 national census, the city's population was 17,142 in 3,762 households.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006): Fars Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=amar.org.ir|url=http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/07.xls|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920091830/http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/07.xls|format=Excel|archive-date=20 September 2011}} The following census in 2011 counted 18,492 people in 4,700 households.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011): Fars Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=irandataportal.syr.edu|via=Iran Data Portal, Syracuse University|url=https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Fars.xls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116202002/https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Fars.xls|archive-date=16 January 2023|access-date=19 December 2022|format=Excel}} The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 20,320 people in 5,717 households.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): Fars Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=amar.org.ir|url=https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_07.xlsx|access-date=19 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406013432/https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_07.xlsx|format=Excel|archive-date=6 April 2022}}
Overview
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Farashband is one of the Fars province cities which is located 172 km west of Shiraz. It neighbours from the north with Kazeroon, from the west with Booshehr, from the south with Lar and the east with Ghir-Karzin and Firoozabad. Its height above sea level is {{convert|750|m}} and its area is approximately about {{convert|59455|ha}}. 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 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 (Sasanian Empire). 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 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
See also
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External links
- [http://abpa.ir/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF/ News Abpa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200324103434/http://abpa.ir/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF/ |date=24 March 2020 }}
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{{Fars Province|state=collapsed}}
{{Farashband County|state=collapsed}}