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Zahedan زاهدان
Zahedan
Coordinates: 29°29′43″N 60°52′06″E / 29.49528, 60.86833
Country	Iran
Province	Sistan and Baluchistan
Elevation	1,352 m (4,436 ft)
Population (2005)
- City	580,071
	estimate
Time zone	IRST (UTC+3:30)

Zahedan (Persian: زاهدان) is an Iranian city and the capital of the province of Sistan and Baluchistan. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1024x849, 47 KB) Summary Blank locator map (orthographic projection) of Iran By Kaveh General SVG version: Sources Map of Iran - CIA - 2005 Provinces of Iran Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on... Image File history File links Red_pog2. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Iran. ... Iran consists of 30 provinces: Provinces are governed from a local center, mostly the largest local city. ... Sistān and BalÅ«chestān is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. ... Elevation histogram of the surface of the Earth – approximately 71% of the Earths surface is covered with water. ... This article is about the unit of length. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... Timezone and TimeZone redirect here. ... Iran Standard Time (IRST) is the time zone used in Iran. ... “Farsi” redirects here. ... Sistān and BalÅ«chestān is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. ...

Zahedan had an estimated population of 580,071 in 2005.[2]

Geography

Zahedan, city in southeastern Iran, located near the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, the capital of Sistan and Baluchistan province at altitude of 1,352 m from sea level at a distance of 1,605 km from Tehran.

Education

Zahedan is the home of the Islamic Azad University, Zahedan and the Zahedan University of Medical Sciences.^[1]

Demographics and Culture

The overwhelming majority of the city's inhabitants are ethnic Sistani. His Hounarable Eminence Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini Sistani (Arabic: السيد علي الحسيني السيستاني Persian: سید علی حسینی سیستانی), born approximately August 4, 1930, is a Grand Ayatollah, a Shia marja and currently an important person in relation to the occupation of Iraq. ...

Sistan (Persian: سیستان) is a border region, southeastern Iran and southwestern Afghanistan. One portion is part of the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan. The other portion is part of the Nimruz Province of Afghanistan. Nimruz (Persian: نیمروز) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ...

Sistan derives its name from 'Sakastan', which Sistan was once the westernmost part of. The Sakas that were once native to Sistan were driven to the Punjab during the Arsacid era (63 BCE-220 CE). The Saffarids (861-1003 CE), one of the early Iranian dynasties of the Islamic era, were originally rulers of Sistan. A cataphract-style parade armour of a Saka royal from the Issyk kurgan. ... This article is about the geographical region. ... The Arsacid Dynasty ruled Persia. ... The Saffarid dynasty of Persia ruled a short-lived empire centred on Seistan, a border district between modern-day Afghanistan and Iran, between AD 861-1003. ...

In the Shahnameh, Sistan is also referred to as Zabulistan, after Zabol, a city in the region. In Ferdowsi's epic, Zabulistan is in turn described to be the homeland of the mythological hero-king Rostam. Shâhnameh Shāhnāmé, or Shāhnāma (Persian: )(alternative spellings are Shahnama, Shahnameh, Shahname, Shah-Nama, etc. ... Zabol (زابل) is a city in the province Sistan and Baluchistan, in Iran, on the border with both Afghanistan and Pakistan. ... Ferdowsi Tousi (فردوسی طوسی in Persian) (more commonly transliterated Firdausi, Ferdosi or Ferdusi) (935–1020) is considered to be one of the greatest Persian poets to have ever lived. ... Rostam Slaying the Dragon- A miniature Painting by Master Mahmoud Farshchian. ...

Sistan has a very strong connection with Zoroastrianism and during Sassanid times Lake Hamun was one of two pilgrimage sites for followers of that religion. In Zoroastrian tradition, the lake is the keeper of Zoroaster's seed and just before the final renovation of the world, three maidens will enter the lake, each then giving birth to the saoshyans who will be the saviours of mankind at the final renovation of the world. Zoroastrianism is the religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to the prophet Zoroaster (Zarathustra, Zartosht). ... Sassanid Empire at its greatest extent The Sassanid dynasty (also Sassanian) was the name given to the kings of Persia during the era of the second Persian Empire, from 224 until 651, when the last Sassanid shah, Yazdegerd III, lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the Umayyad Caliphate... Lake Hamun is a lake in the Province of Sistan and Baluchistan, Iran. ... Zoroaster (Greek Ζωροάστρης, Zōroastrēs) or Zarathustra (Avestan: Zaraθuštra), also referred to as Zartosht (Persian: ), was an ancient Iranian prophet and religious poet. ...

The most famous archaeological site in Sistan is on Kuh-e Khwajeh, a hill rising up as an island in the middle of Lake Hamun. Kuh-e Khwajeh aerial view of Rostam Castle Kuh-e Khwajeh’ citadel view Kuh-e khwajeh Eastern Slope, known as Kuk-i Kohzadh One of the Kuh-e Khwajeh Murals Kuh-e Khwajeh (Persian کوه خواجه, kuh-e xwājé) Mount Khwajeh, also spelled Kuh-e Khajeh, Kuh-i Khaja, is a...

Zahedan Lies on east of the "Kavir-e Loot" desert, It used to be called "Dozdab", as it was the meeting place of bandits. "Dozd" means robbers and bandits. "Ab" means water or a place of water. Bandits used to frequent the place for their drinking water. As seen from space Map of biotopes of Iran  Forest steppe  Forests and woodlands  Semi-desert  Desert lowlands  Steppe  Salted alluvial marshes Dasht-e Lut, also spelled Dasht-i-Lut, is a large salt desert in southeastern Iran. ...

Zahedan is the main economic center of the region and home to many small- and medium-scale industries. Its main products include cotton textiles, woven and hand-knotted rugs, ceramics, processed foods, livestock feed, processed hides, milled rice, bricks, and reed mats and baskets.

Shiye mosque: Like most Iranian cities, Zahedan has a Friday mosque for shiye, "Jame mosque", where many members of the community gather to worship on Friday. Friday Mosque is the English translation of the Arabic term al-jum3a (Arabic: الجمعه ) al-masjid. ...

A colorful bazaar, "Rasouli Bazaar" can also be found in the city. About 100 km south of Zahedan is an intermittently active volcano, "Taftan", which rises abruptly 4,042 m from the surrounding plain. Although the surrounding area has some ancient sites, Zahedan has developed only in the 20th century. Before being chosen as the provincial administrative center in the 1930s, Zahedan was a small village. Its population reached 17,500 by 1956 and increased more than fivefold to 93,000 by 1976. After 1980 large numbers of refugees fleeing the invasion of Afghanistan by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) helped to triple the population of Zahedan to more than 281,000 by 1986, and now It has a population of 590,125 (2001 estimate). Taftan (in Persian: تفتان Taftân) is an old volcano in south-east of Iran situated in the Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... A Soviet soldier on guard in Afghanistan in 1988. ... Soviet redirects here. ...

Transport

Highways link Zahedan to Tehran and Mashhad in the north, the port of Bandar Chabahar on the Arabian Sea in the south, and the Pakistani city of Quetta in the east. For other uses, see Tehran (disambiguation). ... Mashhad (Persian: , literally the place of martyrdom) is the second largest city in Iran and one of the holiest cities in the Shiah world. ... Coast of Chabahar Chabahar (in Persian چابهار), previously also Bandar Beheshti, is an Iranian city and a free port (Free Trade Zone) on the coast of the Gulf of Oman. ... The Arabian Sea (Arabic: بحر العرب; transliterated: Bahr al-Arab) is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui, the north-east point of Somalia...   (Urdu: کوئٹہ) also spelled Kwatah city is a variation of kwatkot, a Pashto word meaning “fort,”. It is the largest city and provincial capital and district of Baluchistan Province, Pakistan. ...

A broad gauge railway line runs from Zahedan to Quetta, and a line is being built from Zahedan to Kerman in central Iran, linking with the rest of the Iranian rail network.^[2] On May 18, 2007, a MOU for rail cooperation was signed by Pakistan and Iran under which the line will be completed by December 2008.^[3] When the rail systems link up at Zahedan, there will be a break of gauge between the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways standard gauge tracks and Pakistan Railways broad gauge. For the U.S. city, see Kerman, California. ... is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary using the Transwiki process. ... With railways, a break-of-gauge is where a line of one gauge meets a line of a different gauge. ... The Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (IR) is the national state-owned railway system of Iran. ... Pakistan Railways is the state-owned railway company of Pakistan. ...

Zahedan is also served by Zahedan International Airport. Zahedan International Airport is an airport in Zahedan, Iran (IATA: ZAH, ICAO: OIZH). ...

See also

• Sistan
• Sistani
• Balouch

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References

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External links

• Iran Chamber Society site about Zahedan
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Coordinates: 29°29′43″N, 60°52′06″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...