Pasveh

Pasveh
Persian: پسوه
Village
Pasveh is located in Iran
Pasveh
Pasveh
Location within Iran
Coordinates: 36°47′52″N 45°19′44″E / 36.79778°N 45.32889°E / 36.79778; 45.32889
CountryIran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyPiranshahr
DistrictLajan
Rural DistrictLahijan-e Sharqi
Population
 (2016)
 • Total
3,495
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)

Pasveh (Persian: پسوه) is a village in, and the capital of, Lahijan-e Sharqi Rural District 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.: 79 

According to Vladimir Minorsky, Pasveh represents the name and location of the ancient Parsua kingdom.: 79  He explained the difference in name by saying that r-deletion in consonant clusters is well-attested.: 79  Pasveh was a frontier outpost near the Parsua's southern border (their core territory was probably the fertile Solduz district further north).: 79 

In the early 1200s, Yaqut al-Hamawi visited Pasveh and left a description in his works.: 79  A century later, Hamdallah Mustawfi included an entry for it (here spelled Basavā or Pasavā) in his Nuzhat al-Qulub. 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. Pasveh later features in the accounts of Kurdish tribal feuds in the Sharafnama.: 79  Much later, when Minorsky visited Pasveh in 1911, he described it as a "desolate" town with a "dilapidated" fort.: 79 

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 2,977 in 515 households. The following census in 2011 counted 3,777 people in 795 households. 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.

See also

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Notes

  1. ↑ Also romanized as Paseveh and Pasooh; also known as Qal‘eh Paswah and Qal‘eh-ye Pasveh

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. ↑ Pasveh at GEOnet Names Server
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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.
  6. 1 2 Hamdallah Mustawfi (1919). Le Strange, Guy (ed.). The Geographical Part of the Nuzhat-al-Qulub. p. 88. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.