Dehestan
Dehestan ( Persian دهستان) is an administrative unit of Iran . It corresponds to a municipality and is smaller than the Bachsch ( district ). The administrative unit of Dehestan stands above the village . In the 2006 census, there were 2,400 dehestans in Iran.
Individual proof
- ^ Babak Rezvani: Conflict and Peace in Central Eurasia. Towards Explanations and Understandings (= International Comparative Social Studies ). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2014, ISBN 978-90-04-27636-9 , pp. 96–97 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).