Pasveh Persian:پسوه | |
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  Pasveh | |
| Coordinates:36°47′52″N45°19′44″E / 36.79778°N 45.32889°E /36.79778; 45.32889[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 ofLajan District ofPiranshahr County,West Azerbaijan province,Iran.[4]
Pasveh has a strategic location controlling the "easy" pass between theLahijan district, in theLesser Zab headwaters, and theLake Urmia basin.[5]: 79
According toVladimir Minorsky, Pasveh represents the name and location of the ancientParsua kingdom.[5]: 79 He explained the difference in name by saying thatr-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 fertileSolduz 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 spelledBasavā orPasavā) in hisNuzhat al-Qulub.[6] He described it as a small town in thetuman ofMaragheh whose surrounding agricultural district produced grain, grapes, and some other fruits; he said its tax value was assessed at 25,000dinars.[6] Pasveh later features in the accounts of Kurdish tribal feuds in theSharafnama.[5]: 79 Much later, when Minorsky visited Pasveh in 1911, he described it as a "desolate" town with a "dilapidated" fort.[5]: 79
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]
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