Kuhbanan Persian:كوهبنان | |
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  Kuhbanan | |
| Coordinates:31°24′36″N56°16′57″E / 31.41000°N 56.28250°E /31.41000; 56.28250[1] | |
| Country | Iran |
| Province | Kerman |
| County | Kuhbanan |
| District | Central |
| Population (2016)[2] | |
• Total | 10,761 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
Kuhbanan (Persian:كوهبنان)[a] is a city in theCentral District ofKuhbanan County,Kerman province,Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.[4]
The nameKūhbanān means "pistachio-tree mountain", from thePersian wordskūh, meaning "mountain", andbanān, which refers to the wild pistachio.[5]
Kuhbanan was described by the 10th-century writeral-Muqaddasi as a small town with twogates. The town'sjameh mosque was by one of these gates. Outside the walled part of the city was a suburban area, where there werebathhouses andcaravanserais. Beyond this suburban area, Kuhbanan was surrounded byfarms andorchards that extended as far as the foot of the nearby mountains.[5]
Medieval Kuhbanan was renowned for its production oftutty, an impure oxide ofzinc used as a salve for the eyes. As early as the 10th century, al-Muqaddasi listed tutty from Kuhbanan as one of the major exports of Kerman province. He wrote that it formed in finger-like "pipes", which were then purified by being roasted in long furnaces by the same mountainside where the ore was extracted. In the early 1200s,Yaqut al-Hamawi similarly described Kuhbanan, along with the nearby town ofBehabad, as a major exporter of tutty.Marco Polo visited Kuhbinan, which he calledCobinan, in the 1300s, and provided a detailed description of the local tutty industry. Around the turn of the 20th century, the British travelerPercy Sykes witnessed the production of tutty in Kuhbanan; the process he described was essentially the same as that used hundreds of years earlier.[5]
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 10,112 in 2,623 households.[6] The following census in 2011 counted 11,093 people in 3,189 households.[7] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 10,761 people in 3,296 households.[2]
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