Kargan Rud District

{{Short description|District in Gilan province, Iran}}

{{for|the administrative division of Minab County in Hormozgan province|Kargan Rural District}}

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Kargan Rud District ({{langx|fa|بخش کرگان‌رود}}) is in Talesh County, Gilan province, in northwestern Iran.{{cite report|title=Divisional reforms in Gilan province|language=fa|website=rc.majlis.ir|via=Islamic Parliament Research Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran|url=https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/122005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516021949/https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/122005|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Political-Defense Commission of the Government Board|last=Aref|first=Mohammad Reza|archive-date=16 May 2018|orig-date=Approved 22 March 1381|date=26 May 2017|id=Proposal 1.4.42.109586; Notification 12371/T25987K|access-date=13 December 2023}} Its capital is the city of Lisar. The area was historically part of the Karganrud Khanate. It was created after the Russo-Persian War, when Fath 'Ali Shah divided Persian Talesh among 5 prominent families to weaken Mir Mostafa Khan's power.{{Cite journal |last=Asatrian |first=Garnik |last2=Borjian |first2=Habib |date=2005 |title=Talish and the Talishis (The State of Research) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4030905 |journal=Iran & the Caucasus |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=45 |issn=1609-8498}}{{Cite journal |last=Rabino |first=H. L. |date=1920 |title=Rulers of Gilan: Rulers of Gaskar, Tul and Naw, Persian Talish, Tulam, Shaft, Rasht, Kuhdum, Kuchisfahan, Daylaman, Ranikuh, and Ashkawar, in Gilan, Persia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25209618 |journal=The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland |issue=3 |pages=280–282 |issn=0035-869X}}