Jowzdan
{{Short description|City in Isfahan province, Iran}}
{{for multi|the administrative division|Jowzdan Rural District|other places with the same name|Jowzdan (disambiguation){{!}}Jowzdan}}
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Jowzdan ({{langx|fa|جوزدان}}){{efn|Also romanized as Jowzdān and Jūzdān; also known as Jazūn{{GEOnet3|6013311}}}} is a city in the Central District of Najafabad County, Isfahan province, Iran, serving as the administrative center for Jowzdan Rural District.{{cite report|title=Creation and formation of nine rural districts including villages, farms and places in Najafabad County under Isfahan province|language=fa|website=lamtakam.com|via=Lam ta Kam|url=https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/110257|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204150830/https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/110257|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Council of Ministers|last=Mousavi|first=Mirhossein|archive-date=4 February 2024|date=c. 2024|orig-date=Approved 4 October 1366|id=Proposal 32.1.5.53|access-date=4 February 2024}}
History
With 800 years of history, Jowzdan is one of the oldest cities in Isfahan province. Historians argue that the stones found in the town's mosque belong to the Timurid era.
The story behind the town's founding is that when the people of Gorg Abad, a small town near Kooh Panji in the Zagros Mountains, faced a huge threat from wolves in that area they moved and founded Jowzdan.{{Cite web|title=پورتال شهرداری نجف آباد - مفاخر و مشاهیر|url=http://www.najafabad.ir/portal/celebrities/162-about-city?start=10|access-date=2021-03-24|website=www.najafabad.ir}}
Demographics
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At the time of the 2006 National Census, Jowzdan's population was 6,393 in 1,561 households, when it was a village in Jowzdan Rural District.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006): Isfahan 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/10.xls|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920083455/http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/10.xls|format=Excel|archive-date=20 September 2011}} The following census in 2011 counted 6,749 people in 1,849 households,{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011): Isfahan 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/Esfahan.xls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117221845/https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Esfahan.xls|archive-date=17 January 2023|access-date=19 December 2022|format=Excel}} by which time the village had been elevated to the status of a city.{{cite report|title=Approval regarding the transformation of the village of Jowzdan from the functions of the village of Jowzdan, the Central District of Najafabad County in Isfahan province into the city of Jowzdan|language=fa|website=lamtakam.com|via=Lam ta Kam|url=https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/135050|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201165715/https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/135050|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Political-Defense Commission of the Government Board|last=Davodi|first=Parviz|archive-date=1 December 2024|date=c. 2024|orig-date=Approved 29 July 1386|id=Proposal 93023/42/4/1; Letter 58538/T26118H; Notification 166179/T38077K|access-date=1 December 2024}} The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 6,998 people in 2,105 households.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): Isfahan 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_10.xlsx|access-date=19 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019041954/https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_10.xlsx|format=Excel|archive-date=19 October 2020}}
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See also
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{{Isfahan Province|state=collapsed}}
{{Najafabad County|state=collapsed}}