Māzandarān

مازندران Māzandarān
	Location of the province of Māzandarān in Iran
Basic data
Country	Iran
Capital	Sari
surface	23,842 km²
Residents	3,283,582 (2016 census)
density	138 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	IR-21
	Landscape in Māzandarān

36.796111111111 53.518333333333Coordinates: 36 ° 48 ' N , 53 ° 31' E

Languages in Mazandaran

Māzandarān Province counties

Women in the rice fields of Māzandarān

Māzandarān , also Masanderan ( Persian مازندران, Masanderan مازرون or مازندرون), is an Iranian province. It emerged from the ancient province of Tabaristan . The capital is Sāri .

3,283,582 people live in the province (2016 census). The province is 23,701 square kilometers. The population density is 138 inhabitants per square kilometer.

language

In Masandaran the Masanderan language (Māzanderānī) is spoken. It has the oldest written tradition among the living Iranian languages .

history

Māzandarān was part of Tabaristan in ancient times . Here local dynasties were able to establish themselves again and again with a certain independence from the surrounding states. The best known example are the Ziyarids , who ruled between 928 and 1090. Māzandarān is often mentioned in the Shāhnāme of Firdausi as a demonic landscape inhabited by divas , which, however, could mean today's India .

geography

The border to the province of Tehran runs over the Damawand , the highest peak of the mighty Elburs Mountains ( Pers. Alborz ) at 5671 m . The capital Tehran is another 50 km south . Māzandarān is shielded from the dry desert-like inland by the Elburs Mountains. There is a moderate, relatively humid climate on the mountain slopes. Foothills of the Hyrcanic forest grow here . This temperate rainforest is followed by the Elburs forest steppe with a rather dry climate.

Agriculture

The medlar is cultivated by the Caspian Sea in Māzandarān. In addition, Mazandaran's rice is grown in the lowlands and large potato fields can be seen in the Damavand Mountains near the town of Firūzkuh . Mazandaran is also known for oranges and figs .

Administrative division

Māzandarān is divided into 15 districts:

Colleges

Sons and daughters

Reza Shah Pahlavi

Reza Shah Pahlavi (1878–1944), Shah of Persia
Nima Youschidsch (1897–1960), Persian poet
Khosrow Sinai (1941-2020), Iranian film director
Gholam Hossein Banan (1911–1986), Iranian musician and singer
Abdollah Movahed (* 1940), Iranian wrestler
Imam-Ali Habibi (* 1931), Iranian wrestler
Reza Yazdani (* 1984), Iranian wrestler
Reza Allamehzadeh (* 1943), Dutch filmmaker, film critic and writer of Iranian origin
Towhidi Tabari (* 1964), Iranian calligrapher and painter
Schamseddin Hosseini (* 1967), Iranian politician, Islamic clergyman
Scheys Rezai (* 1984), Iranian football player
Mohammad Ali Sadjadi (* 1957), Persian artist
at-Tabarī (839–923), historian and scholar
ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban at-Tabarī (around 805 – around 870), Iranian doctor and scholar

literature

Yukako Goto: The southern Caspian provinces of Iran under the Safavids in the 16th and 17th centuries . Berlin, Klaus Schwarz Verlag 2011. ISBN 978-3-87997-382-8

Web links

Commons : Māzandarān - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website

Individual evidence

↑ City Population: Iran - Cities and Provinces .
↑ Jürgen Ehlers (ed. And trans.): Abū'l-Qāsem Ferdausi: Rostam - The legends from the Šāhnāme . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2002, p. 368

[1] City Population: Iran - Cities and Provinces .

[2] Jürgen Ehlers (ed. And trans.): Abū'l-Qāsem Ferdausi: Rostam - The legends from the Šāhnāme . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2002, p. 368