Takestan

Takestan
Persian: تاكستان
City
Clockwise from the top:
 Shahi mansion, Bogheh-e-pir, vineyard, Takestan's wind farm
Takestan is located in Iran
Takestan
Takestan
Location within Iran
Coordinates: 36°04′02″N 49°41′45″E / 36.06722°N 49.69583°E / 36.06722; 49.69583
CountryIran
ProvinceQazvin
CountyTakestan
DistrictCentral
Population
 (2016)
 • Total
80,299
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)

Takestan (Persian: تاكستان) is a city in the Central District of Takestan County, Qazvin province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Takestan has a railway station on the Teheran-Tabriz line. The name Takestan literally means "vineyard."

Demographics

Village Siadeh (Takestan) by Eugène Flandin, 1840

Ethnicity

Most of the population of Takestan belong to the Tat ethnic group and Azerbaijanis. Takestan is the largest Tat-populated city in the world.

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 73,625 in 18,685 households. The following census in 2011 counted 77,907 people in 22,894 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 80,299 people in 24,595 households.

Historical sites

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Also romanized as Tâkestân; also known as Siadehan and Siaden; and Tati: (سیادن), romanized as Siyâden

References

  1. ↑ OpenStreetMap contributors (16 September 2024). "بانک ملی [National Bank], Takestan, بخش مرکزی شهرستان تاکستان [Central District of Takestan County], Takestan County, Qazvin Province, Iran" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  2. ↑ "3M8W+V8P Takestan, Qazvin Province, Iran" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
  3. 1 2 سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1395 : استان قزوین [General Population and Housing Census 2016: Qazvin Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 30 November 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  4. ↑ Takestan at GEOnet Names Server
  5. ↑ Habibi, Hassan (12 September 1990) [تاریخ تصویب (Approval date) 1369/06/21 (Iranian Jalali calendar)]. تصویب سازمان و سلسله تابعیت عناصر و واحدهای تقسیمات کشوری استان زنجان به مرکزیت شهر زنجان [‌Approval of the organization and chain of citizenship of elements and units of the national divisions of Zanjan province, centered in Zanjan city]. لام تا کام [Lam ta Kam] (in Persian). ‌وزارت کشور [Ministry of the Interior]. کمیسیون سیاسی دفاعی هیأت دولت [Political Defense Commission of the Government Board]. شناسه [ID] 965C7B0D-32D4-4BC6-A126-65D28CD02436. شماره دوره [Course number] 69, شماره جلد [Volume number] 3. Archived from the original on 16 December 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  6. ↑ "Takestan Municipality". Archived from the original on 24 April 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  7. ↑ Stilo, Donald L. (2 January 2007). "The Tati language group in the sociolinguistic context of Northwestern Iran and Transcaucasia". Iranian Studies. 14 (3–4): 137–187. doi:10.1080/00210868108701585.
  8. ↑ Yar-Shater, Ehsan (1969). A grammar of southern Tati dialects. Mouton.
  9. ↑ Tats of Iran and Caucasus, Ali Abdoli, 2010.
  10. ↑ "Takestani, a language of Iran". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 19th Edition. SIL International Publications. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  11. ↑ سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1385 : استان قزوین [General Population and Housing Census 2006: Qazvin Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  12. ↑ سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1390 : استان قزوین [General Population and Housing Census 2011: Qazvin Province]. Iran Data Portal—Syracuse University (in Persian). مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran]. Archived from the original (Excel) on 19 January 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

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