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Khamaneh
Khamaneh ( fa, خامنه; also Romanized as Khāmeneh, Khamaneh, and Khāmneh; also known as Khumla and Khumna) is a city in the Central District (Shabestar County), Central District of Shabestar County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran; and at the distance of 72 km from Tabriz. At the 2011 census, its population was 2,541, in 812 families. History The main industry of Khameneh used to be fabric and wool. Marefat (Nesar) school, the first school in Shabestar area, was built in Khameneh in 1899. Notable natives *Javad Khamenei, Seyyed Javad Khamenei *Mohammad Khiabani *Mir-Hossein Mousavi *Ali Khamenei, Seyyed Ali Khamenei (Supreme Leader of Iran) *Mojtaba Khamenei, Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei *Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Mirza Fatali Axundov Tourism places * Masjid MirPanj (MirPanj Mosque) * Qanatin (Aqueducts) of Khameneh * Bazar (Market) of Khameneh * Historical bathroom of Khameneh * Qareh Kahriz tourism area * Etc.
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Ali Khamenei
Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنه‌ای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia ''marja''' and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president of Iran from 1981 to 1989. Khamenei is the longest serving head of state in the Middle East, as well as the second-longest serving Iranian leader of the last century, after Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. According to his official website, Khamenei was arrested six times before being sent into exile for three years during Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's reign. After the Iranian revolution overthrowing the shah, he was the target of an attempted assassination in June 1981 that paralysed his right arm. Khamenei was one of Iran's leaders during the Iran–Iraq War in the 1980s, and developed close ties with the now powerful Revolutionary Guards which he controls, and whose commanders are elected and dismissed by him. The Revolutionary Guards have been ...
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Mirza Fatali Akhundov
Mirza Fatali Akhundov ( az, Mirzə Fətəli Axundov; fa, میرزا فتحعلی آخوندزاده), also known as Mirza Fatali Akhundzade, or Mirza Fath-Ali Akhundzadeh (12 July 1812 – 9 March 1878), was a celebrated Azerbaijani author, playwright, atheist, philosopher, and founder of Azerbaijani modern literary criticism, "who acquired fame primarily as the writer of European-inspired plays in the Azeri Turkic language". Akhundzade singlehandedly opened a new stage of development of Azerbaijani literature. He was also the founder of the materialism and atheism movement in the Republic of Azerbaijan and one of forerunners of modern Iranian nationalism. Tadeusz Swietochowski, ''Russia and Azerbaijan: A Borderland in Transition'' (New York: Columbia University Press), 1995, pp. 27–28: He also advocated switching the Azerbaijani writing system from the Perso-Arabic script to the Latin alphabet. According to the historian and political scientist Zaur Gasimov, the entirety of ...
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Shabestar County
Shabestar County ( fa, شهرستان شبستر) is in East Azerbaijan province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkm .... The capital of the county is the city of Shabestar. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 121,787 in 33,255 households. The following census in 2011 counted 124,499 people in 37,358 households. At the 2016 census, the county's population was 135,421 in 43,982 households. Administrative divisions The population history of Shabestar County's administrative divisions over three consecutive censuses is shown in the following table. The latest census shows three districts, eight rural districts, and nine cities. Publications ''International Journal of Forest, Soil and Erosion'' has been published as a peer-reviewed journal in Shabe ...
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Central District (Shabestar County)
The Central District of Shabestar County ( fa, بخش مرکزی شهرستان شبستر) is a district (bakhsh) in Shabestar County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 70,218, in 20,952 families. The District has seven cities: Shabestar, Khamaneh, Sharafkhaneh, Shendabad, Sis, Vayqan, and Kuzeh Kanan. The District has three rural districts (''dehestan''): Guney-ye Markazi Rural District, Guney-ye Sharqi Rural District , native_name_lang = , settlement_type = Rural District , image_skyline = , image_alt = , image_caption = , image_flag = , flag_alt = , image_seal ..., and Sis Rural District. References Shabestar County Districts of East Azerbaijan Province {{Shabestar-geo-stub ...
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List Of Countries
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 206 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, 2 United Nations General Assembly observers#Present non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and 11 other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (16 states, of which there are 6 UN member states, 1 UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and 9 de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (2 states, both in associated state, free association with New Zealand). Compi ...
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Javad Khamenei
Sayyid Javad Khamenei ( fa, سید جواد خامنه‌ای; 7 December 1895 – 5 July 1986) was an Iranian Shia. He was the father of Iran's current supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Early life He was an ethnic Iranian Azeri from the city of Khameneh. He attended seminary in Najaf, Qom and Mashhad. After finishing his studies, he settled in the vicinity of Ali ibn Musa (al-Ridha) shrine in Mashhad. He was the imam of the Mashhad in an Azeri mosque (without source). He had three daughters from his first marriage, named Alaviyeh, Batoul and Fatemeh Soltan. After the death of his first wife, he married Khadijeh Mirdamadi, an ethnic Persian, with whom he had one daughter ( Badri Khamenei) and four sons ( Mohammad Khamenei, Ali Khamenei, Hadi Khamenei and Mohammad Hassan Khamenei). Death Javad Khamenei died on 5 July 1986. He was buried at the portico, behind Imam Reza Shrine, next to Dar-al-Feiz. See also * Khamenei family * Sayyid * Family tree of Ali * Ali Khamenei * Mohammad ...
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Populated Places In Shabestar County
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with ...
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Mojtaba Khamenei
Sayyid Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید مجتبی حسینی خامنه‌ای; born 8 September 1969) is a son of Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran. He served in the Iran–Iraq War from 1987 to 1988. He is considered by European sources as one of the possible candidates to succeed his father Ali Khamenei, who has ruled Iran for over three decades. Early life and education Mojtaba was born in Mashhad in 1969, and is the second son of Ali Khamenei, the Supreme leader of Iran. After graduating from high school, he studied theology. His early teachers included his own father and Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. In 1999, he continued his studies in Qom to become a cleric. Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani and Mohammad Bagher Kharazi were his teachers there. Activities and influence Mojtaba teaches theology in the Qom seminary. He was affiliated with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and supported Ahmadinejad in the 2005 ...
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Supreme Leader Of Iran
The Supreme Leader of Iran ( fa, رهبر ایران, rahbar-e irān) is the head of state of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Supreme Leader directs the executive system and judicial system of the Islamic theocratic government and is the commander-in-chief of the Iranian Armed Forces. The Supreme Leader is the highest-ranking political and religious authority of Iran. The armed forces, judiciary, state television, and other key government organisations such as Guardian Council and Expediency Discernment Council are subject to the Supreme Leader."Who's in Charge?" by Ervand Abrahamian ''London Review of Books'', 6 November 2008 According to the constitution, the Supreme Leader delineates the general policies of the Islamic Republic (article 110), supervising the legislature, the judiciary, and the executive branches (article 57). The current lifetime officeholder, Ali Khamenei, has issued decrees and made the final decisions on the economy, the environment, foreign p ...
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Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh ( fa, میرحسین موسوی خامنه, Mīr-Hoseyn Mūsavī Khāmené, ; born 2 March 1942) is an Iranian reformist politician, artist and architect who served as the forty-ninth and last Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989. He was a reformist candidate for the 2009 presidential election and eventually the leader of the opposition in the post-election unrest. Mousavi served as the president of the Iranian Academy of Arts until 2009, when Conservative authorities removed him. In the early years of the revolution, Mousavi was the editor-in-chief of '' Jomhouri-e Eslami'', the official newspaper of the Islamic Republican Party, before being elevated to Minister of Foreign Affairs and eventually the post of Prime Minister. He was the last Prime Minister in Iran prior to the 1989 constitutional changes which removed the post of the prime minister; he then went into semi-retirement for the next 20 years. He remains a member of the Expediency ...
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Mohammad Khiabani
Shaikh Mohammad Khiābāni ( fa, شیخ محمد خیابانی, 1880–1920), sometimes spelled Khiyabani, also known as Shaikh Mohammad Khiābāni Tabrizi was an Iranian Shia cleric, political leader, and representative to the parliament. He was born in Khameneh, near Tabriz to Haji Abdolhamid (his father) from Khameneh, a merchant. He became active during the Persian Constitutional Revolution and was a prominent dissident against foreign colonialism, which subsequently led to him being sent into exile by the Ottomans in 1918. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Khiabani re-established the Democrat Party of Tabriz after being banned for five years, and published the ''Tajaddod'' newspaper, the official organ of the party, edited by his supporter Taqi Rafat. Later, in a protest to the 1919 Treaty between Persia and the United Kingdom, which exclusively transferred the rights of deciding about all military, financial, and customs affairs of Persia to the British, he revolted ...
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Gr ...
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