Leylan

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Leylan ({{langx|fa|ليلان}}){{efn|Also romanized as Lailān, Laylān, and Leylān{{GEOnet3|-3073103}}}} is a city in the Central District{{efn|Formerly Leylan District of Malekan County}} of Leylan County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county{{cite report|title=Changes in country divisions of Malekan and Leylan Counties of East Azerbaijan province|language=fa|website=qavanin.ir|via=Laws and Regulations Portal of the Islamic Republic of Iran|url=https://qavanin.ir/Law/TreeText/302129|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806144904/https://qavanin.ir/Law/TreeText/302129|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Council of Ministers|last=Mokhbar|first=Mohammad|archive-date=6 August 2023|orig-date=Approved 13 February 1402|date=c. 2023|id=Proposal 141670|access-date=11 August 2024}} and the district.{{cite report|title=Divisional reforms in East Azerbaijan province|language=fa|website=qavanin.ir|via=Laws and Regulations Portal of the Islamic Republic of Iran|url=https://qavanin.ir/Law/PrintText/90306|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101064517/https://qavanin.ir/Law/PrintText/90306|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Political and Defense Commission of the Government Delegation|last=Habibi|first=Hassan|archive-date=1 January 2022|orig-date=Approved 22 July 1374|id=Notification 93808/T907|date=c. 2022|access-date=5 December 2023}} It was the administrative center for Leylan-e Jonubi Rural District{{cite report|title=Creation and formation of 13 rural districts in Maragheh County under East Azerbaijan province|language=fa|website=lamtakam.com|via=Lam ta Kam|url=https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/110335|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205170742/https://lamtakam.com/law/council_of_ministers/110335|orig-date=Approved 18 May 1366|date=c. 2023|id=Notification 110516/T674|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Council of Ministers|last=Mousavi|first=Mirhossein|archive-date=5 December 2023|access-date=5 December 2023}}{{efn|Formerly Leylan Rural District}} until its capital was transferred to the village of Turchi.

History

The ancient Iranian town of Ganzak is identified as being near Leylan in the Miandoab plain.M. Boyce, [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ganzak- Ganzak], in Encyclopaedia Iranica, vol. 10, 2001.{{cite book|last=Christensen|first=Peter|title=The Decline of Iranshahr|pages=323–324, note 10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ebB_ac13v3UC&q=ganzak&pg=PA323|access-date=23 Jul 2008 | isbn=978-87-7289-259-7 | year=1993 | publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press}}

Ganzak was built by the Achaemenids, and was the seat of the satrap of Media. Later, it served as the capital of the kingdom of Atropatene.

Demographics

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At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 6,079 in 1,468 households,{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006): East Azerbaijan 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/03.xls|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920092432/http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/03.xls|format=Excel|archive-date=20 September 2011}} when it was in Leylan District{{efn|Renamed the Central District of Leylan County}} of Malekan County. The following census in 2011 counted 6,175 people in 1,858 households.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011): East Azerbaijan Province|website=irandataportal.syr.edu|via=Iran Data Portal, Syracuse University|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|url=https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/East-Azerbaijan.xls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116202318/https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/East-Azerbaijan.xls|archive-date=16 January 2023|access-date=19 December 2022|format=Excel}} The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 6,356 people in 1,943 households.{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): East Azerbaijan 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_03.xlsx|access-date=19 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113123618/https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_03.xlsx|format=Excel|archive-date=13 November 2020}}

In 2023, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Leylan County and renamed the Central District, with Leylan as capital of the new county.

Notes

References

Category:Cities in East Azerbaijan province

Category:Populated places in Leylan County