Pasveh
Pasveh
Persian: پسوه | |
|---|---|
Village | |
Pasveh | |
| Coordinates: 36°47′52″N 45°19′44″E / 36.79778°N 45.32889°E[1] | |
| Country | Iran |
| Province | West Azerbaijan |
| County | Piranshahr |
| District | Lajan |
| Rural District | Lahijan-e Sharqi |
| Population (2016)[2] | |
• Total | 3,495 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
Pasveh (Persian: پسوه)[a] is a village in, and the capital of, Lahijan-e Sharqi Rural District[4] in Lajan District of Piranshahr County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.
Parsua civilization
Pasveh has a strategic location controlling the "easy" pass between the Lahijan district, in the Lesser Zab headwaters, and the Lake Urmia basin.[5]: 79
According to Vladimir Minorsky, Pasveh represents the name and location of the ancient Parsua kingdom.[5]: 79 He explained the difference in name by saying that r-deletion in consonant clusters is well-attested.[5]: 79 Pasveh was a frontier outpost near the Parsua's southern border (their core territory was probably the fertile Solduz district further north).[5]: 79
In the early 1200s, Yaqut al-Hamawi visited Pasveh and left a description in his works.[5]: 79 A century later, Hamdallah Mustawfi included an entry for it (here spelled Basavā or Pasavā) in his Nuzhat al-Qulub.[6] He described it as a small town in the tuman of Maragheh whose surrounding agricultural district produced grain, grapes, and some other fruits; he said its tax value was assessed at 25,000 dinars.[6] Pasveh later features in the accounts of Kurdish tribal feuds in the Sharafnama.[5]: 79 Much later, when Minorsky visited Pasveh in 1911, he described it as a "desolate" town with a "dilapidated" fort.[5]: 79
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 2,977 in 515 households.[7] The following census in 2011 counted 3,777 people in 795 households.[8] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 3,495 people in 869 households. It was the most populous village in its rural district.[2]
See also
Notes
References
- ^ OpenStreetMap contributors (27 September 2024). "Pasveh, دهستان لاهیجان شرقی, بخش لاجان [Lahijan-e Sharqi Rural District, Lajan District], Piranshahr County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 27 September 2024.
- ^ a b سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1395 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2016: West Azerbaijan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 30 August 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ Pasveh can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3078050" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
- ^ Mousavi, Mir-Hossein (25 November 1987) [تاریخ تصویب (Approval date) 1366/09/04 (Iranian Jalali calendar)]. ایجاد و تشکیل تعداد 4 دهستان شامل روستاها، مزارع و مکانها در شهرستان پیرانشهر تابع استان آذربایجان غربی [Creation and formation of four rural districts including villages, farms and places in Piranshahr County under West Azerbaijan province]. لام تا کام [Lam ta Kam] (in Persian). وزارت کشور [Ministry of the Interior]. هیات وزیران [Council of Ministers]. شناسه [ID] 5D185637-4E59-458B-A76B-4257680E88E1. شماره دوره [Course number] 66, شماره جلد [Volume number] 16. Archived from the original on 22 December 2023. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g Minorsky, Vladimir (1957). "Mongol Place-Names in Mukri Kurdistan". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 19 (1): 58–81. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
- ^ a b Hamdallah Mustawfi (1919). Le Strange, Guy (ed.). The Geographical Part of the Nuzhat-al-Qulub. p. 88. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ^ سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1385 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2006: West Azerbaijan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1390 : استان آذربایجان غربی [General Population and Housing Census 2011: West Azerbaijan Province]. Iran Data Portal—Syracuse University (in Persian). مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran]. Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 January 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2022.