Sohrevard Persian:سهرورد | |
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  Sohrevard | |
| Coordinates:36°04′28″N48°26′18″E / 36.07444°N 48.43833°E /36.07444; 48.43833[1] | |
| Country | Iran |
| Province | Zanjan |
| County | Khodabandeh |
| District | Central |
| Population (2016)[2] | |
• Total | 6,991 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
Sohrevard (Persian:سهرورد)[a] is a city in theCentral District ofKhodabandeh County,Zanjan province,Iran, serving as the administrative center forSohrevard Rural District.[4] The previous capital of the rural district was the village ofKarasf,[5] now a city.[6]
According toTheodor Nöldeke, and later followed byJosef Marquart, the name Sohrevard was originally derived from the personal nameSohrab, so that the city's original name would have been something likeSuxrāp-kart orSuhrāv-gerd.[7] Nöldeke specifically thought the Sohrab in question was a certain governor ofal-Hirah attested with this name, but there were many other known people named Sohrab and in reality the city could have been named after any one of them.[7]
Medieval Muslim geographers described Sohrevard as a town in the province ofJibal, located south ofSoltaniyeh on the road fromHamadan toZanjan.[7] According toal-Istakhri, this route was the shortest route to get from Jibal toAdharbayjan and was the one usually used in peacetime; in times of political conflict, travellers took the longer route viaQazvin instead.[7]Ibn Hawqal wrote the exact opposite about the two routes.[7] Since Sohrevard had a cold highland climate, it did not produce much agriculturally except for grain and some smaller fruits.[7]
In the 10th century, when Ibn Hawqal wrote, Sohrevard was aKurdish town inhabited byKharijites, who later mostly emigrated from the city.[7] The walled city of Sohrevard was later destroyed by theMongols.[7] In the 14th century,Hamdallah Mustawfi described Sohrevard as merely a small village, with many Mongol villages also in the area.[7]
At the time of the 2006 National Census, Sohrevard's population was 5,786 in 1,356 households, when it was a village in Sohrevard Rural District.[8] The following census in 2011 counted 6,104 people in 1,665 households,[9] by which time the village had been elevated to the status of a city.[10] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 6,991 people in 1,961 households.[2]
Sohrevard was the birthplace of the 12th-century Iranian philosopher,Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi,[11] the Persian SufiAbu al-Najib Suhrawardi and his nephewShahab al-Din Abu Hafs Umar Suhrawardi (a direct descendant of Islamic Khalifa Abū Bakr as-Ṣiddīq).[citation needed]
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