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Fereydan
Fereydan (; ka, ფერეიდანი; ) is a region of Isfahan Province, Iran. Demographics Georgians The Fereydan Georgians ( ka, ფერეიდნელები) are an ethnic subgroup of the Georgian people who live mostly in the city of Fereydunshahr and in the Fereydan region of Iran. Origins Although there have been Georgian migrations into Iran - sometimes voluntary, but mainly forced - since the time of shah Tahmasp I, the presence of a large Georgian community in Iran dates mainly from the reign of shah Abbas I. During the Persian punitive campaign undertaken in eastern Georgia by Shah Abbas in 1614–17 against his (formerly most loyal) Georgian subject Teimuraz I, both the region of Kakheti and the city of Tbilisi were devastated, and a large part of the population forced into exile. Soon after the triumphal return of Shah Abbas to Persia in 1617 following his Georgian campaign, some 200,000 ethnic Georgians from Kakheti were banished to Isfahan p ...
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Iranian Georgians
Iranian Georgians or Persian Georgians ( ka, ირანის ქართველები; ) are Iranian citizens who are ethnically Georgian, and are an ethnic group living in Iran. Today's Georgia was a subject of Iran in ancient times under the Achaemenid and Sassanian empires and from the 16th century till the early 19th century, starting with the Safavids in power and later Qajars. Shah Abbas I, his predecessors, and successors, relocated by force hundreds of thousands of Christian, and Jewish Georgians as part of his programs to reduce the power of the Qizilbash, develop industrial economy, strengthen the military, and populate newly built towns in various places in Iran including the provinces of Isfahan ( Fereydan, Fereydunshahr, and Buin-Miandasht ), Mazandaran, Gilan, Semnan, Fars, Azerbaijan, Khorasan and Khuzestan. A certain number of these, among them members of the nobility, also migrated voluntarily over the centuries, as well as some that moved as muh ...
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Georgians
Georgians, or Kartvelians (; ka, ქართველები, tr, ), are a nation and Peoples of the Caucasus, Caucasian ethnic group native to present-day Georgia (country), Georgia and surrounding areas historically associated with the Georgian kingdoms. Significant Georgian diaspora communities are also present throughout Georgians in Russia, Russia, Georgians in Turkey, Turkey, Georgians in Greece, Greece, Iranian Georgians, Iran, Georgians in Ukraine, Ukraine, the Georgian Americans, United States, and the European Union. Georgians arose from Colchis, Colchian and Kingdom of Iberia (antiquity), Iberian civilizations of classical antiquity; Colchis was interconnected with the Ancient Greece, Hellenic world, whereas Iberia was influenced by the Achaemenid Empire until Alexander the Great conquered it. In the early 4th century, the Georgians became one of the first to Christianization of Iberia, embrace Christianity. Currently, the majority of Georgians are Eastern Orthodo ...
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Georgian People
Georgians, or Kartvelians (; ka, ქართველები, tr, ), are a nation and Caucasian ethnic group native to present-day Georgia and surrounding areas historically associated with the Georgian kingdoms. Significant Georgian diaspora communities are also present throughout Russia, Turkey, Greece, Iran, Ukraine, the United States, and the European Union. Georgians arose from Colchian and Iberian civilizations of classical antiquity; Colchis was interconnected with the Hellenic world, whereas Iberia was influenced by the Achaemenid Empire until Alexander the Great conquered it. In the early 4th century, the Georgians became one of the first to embrace Christianity. Currently, the majority of Georgians are Orthodox Christians, with most following their national Georgian Orthodox Church; there are also small Georgian Catholic and Muslim communities as well as a significant number of irreligious Georgians. Located in the Caucasus, on the continental crossroads of ...
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Georgian Dialects
Georgian language, Georgian (ქართული ''kartuli'') is a Kartvelian languages, Kartvelian language spoken by about 4 million people, primarily in Georgia (country), Georgia but also by indigenous communities in northern Turkey and Azerbaijan, and the diaspora, such as in Russia, Turkey, Iran, Europe, and North America. It is a highly standardized language, with established literary and linguistic norms dating back to the 5th century. There are at least 18 dialects of the language. Standard Georgian is largely based on the Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestige Kartlian dialect.''Georgian Dialects''
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It has over centuries wiped out significant regional linguistic differences within Georgia, particularly through the centralized educational system and ...
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Fereydunshahr
Fereydunshahr () is a city in the Central District of Fereydunshahr County, Isfahan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. It is about 150 km west of the city of Isfahan in the western part of the province. With an elevation of about 2500 meters above the sea level, Fereydunshahr is the highest town in Iran. Demographics Language The city's linguistic composition consists of about 55% Georgian, 10% Luri, 5% Azeri speaking, the rest being standard Persian. Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 13,475 in 3,622 households. The following census in 2011 counted 14,007 people in 4,062 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 13,603 people in 4,285 households. Fereydunshahr is inside the Zagros mountain range. It has one of the country's largest population of ethnic Georgians (ფერეიდნელი). People from Fereydunshahr speak a Georgian language along with Pe ...
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Fereydunshahr County
Fereydunshahr County () is in Isfahan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Fereydunshahr. History After the 2016 National Census, Pishkuh-e Mugui and Poshtkuh-e Mugui Rural Districts were separated from the Central District in the formation of Mugui District. Demographics Language and ethnicity The majority of the county's population are Iranian Georgians.Babak Rezvani''Ethno-territorial conflict and coexistence in the caucasus, Central Asia and Fereydan:''Amsterdam University Press, 15 mrt. 2014 p 167 In addition, there are Turks Turk or Turks may refer to: Communities and ethnic groups * Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation * Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic of Turkey * Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic lang ... from the Ustajlu tribe and Bakhtiaris present in the county. Population At the time of the 2006 census, the county's population was 38,955 in 9,259 households. The following census in ...
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A View From Dashkasan
A, or a, is the first Letter (alphabet), letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''English alphabet#Letter names, a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, ''English articles, a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest know ...
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Persianization
Persianization () or Persification (; ), is a sociological process of cultural change in which a non- Persian society becomes "Persianate", meaning it either directly adopts or becomes strongly influenced by the Persian language, culture, literature, art, music, and identity as well as other socio-cultural factors. It is a specific form of cultural assimilation that often includes a language shift. The term applies not only to cultures, but also to individuals, as they acclimate to Persian culture and become "Persianized" or "Persified". Historically, the term was commonly applied to refer to changes in the cultures of non-Iranian peoples living within the Persian cultural sphere, particularly during the early and middle Islamic periods, such as Arabs and various Caucasian (such as Georgian, Armenian and Dagestani) and Turkic peoples, including the Seljuks, the Ottomans, and the Ghaznavids. The term has also been applied to the transmission of aspects of Persian culture, incl ...
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Buin Va Miandasht County
Buin Miandasht County () is in Isfahan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Buin Miandasht. History In 2013, Buin Miandasht District was separated from Faridan County Faridan County () is in Isfahan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Daran. History After the 2011 National Census, Buin Miandasht District was separated from the county in the establishment of Buin Miandasht County Buin Mia ... in the establishment of Buin Miandasht County, which was divided into two districts and five rural districts, with Buin Miandasht as its capital. Demographics Population At the time of the 2016 National Census, the county's population was 24,163 in 8,026 households. Administrative divisions Buuin Miandasht County's population and administrative structure are shown in the following table. See also References {{Buin Miandasht County, state=collapsed Buin va Miandasht County Counties of Isfahan province ...
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Nehzatabad, Fereydunshahr
Nehzatabad (, also Romanized as Nehẕatābād) is a village in Cheshmeh Langan Rural District, in the Central District of Fereydunshahr County, Isfahan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort .... At the 2006 census, its population was 665, in 148 families. References Populated places in Fereydunshahr County {{Fereydunshahr-geo-stub ...
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Luri People
The Lurs, Lors or Luris () are an Iranian peoples, Iranian people living in western and southern Iran. The four Luri branches are the Bakhtiari people, Bakhtiari, Mamasani (tribe), Mamasani, Kohgiluyeh and Lur proper, who are principally linked by the Luri language. Lorestan province is named after the Lurs, but some Lurs live in other provinces including Fars province, Fars, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Khuzestan province, Khuzestan, Hamadan province, Hamadan, Isfahan province, Isfahan, Tehran province, Tehran southern Ilam province, and Ganaveh County, Genaveh county in Bushehr province. Origin Ancestry There are several disputes over the origin of the Lurs, but they are believed to be of Elamite and Kassites, Kassite origin. Name The first sighting of the word Lur is in the writings of some historians and geographers of the 10th century and later in the form of , , and ...
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Choqyurt
Choqyurt (, also Romanized as Choqyūrt; also known as Chūghrūt) is a village in Cheshmeh Langan Rural District, in the Central District of Fereydunshahr County, Isfahan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort .... At the 2006 census, its population was 610, in 143 families. References Populated places in Fereydunshahr County {{Fereydunshahr-geo-stub ...
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