Mehrān
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| Province : | Ilam | ||
| Coordinates : | 33 ° 7 ' N , 46 ° 10' E | ||
| Height : | 133 m | ||
| Residents : | 13,118 (calculation 2006) | ||
| Time zone : | UTC +3: 30 | ||
Mehrān ( Persian مهران) is a small border town in western Iran across from the Iraqi border town of Zurbatiyah (near Badrah). Mehran belongs to the Iranian province of Ilam and is the capital of the district ( Schahrestan ) Mehran, to which Salehabad also belongs.
geography
Mehran is 61 kilometers south of the provincial capital Ilam (expressway 17 via Salehabad) and 76 kilometers north of the Iraqi provincial capital Kut (expressway 64 via Badrah). Mehran is located at the foot of the western foothills of the Zāgros Mountains at an altitude of just 133 meters above sea level.
population
According to the Iranian census, the city of Mehran in 2006 had over 13,000 mainly Persian and Lurian residents, the Mehran district over 55,000.
history
The city of Mehran used to be called Mansurabad (منسورآباد) or Seyyed Hassan and is traditionally a stopover for Iranian pilgrims on the way to the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala in Iraq . Many pilgrims who died on the way were buried in Mehran. In and around Mehran there are a. the shrines of Seyyed Mohammad Abed, Seyyed Ibrahim Qatal and Seyyed Hassan.
Mehran was the city that changed hands most frequently during the Iraqi-Iranian War . When the war began in 1980, the Iraqis conquered the city, the Iranians retook it in 1982, and in 1986 and 1988 it fell briefly into Iraqi hands again. Shortly before the end of the war in 1988, it was occupied by the Iraqi Liberation Army in exile , but in August 1988 it was finally recaptured by the Iranian armed forces.
As a result of the US allied invasion of Iraq , a reception center for tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees was set up in Mehran in 2003.
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Fallingrain.com: Mehran, Iran
- ↑ World Gazetter: Mehran (town)
- ↑ World Gazetter: Mehran (shahrestan)
- ^ Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty : Agreement on Iran-Iraq pilgrimages forthcoming (Iraq Report of March 26, 2004)
- ↑ Encyclopaedia Iranica online: Ilām: Ilām in the Iran-Iraq War ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Iran sets up camp in Mehran border city (March 28, 2003)
