Alasht () is a city in the Central District of

Savadkuh County Savadkuh County () is in Mazandaran province, Mazandaran province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Pol-e Sefid, Mazandaran, Pol-e Sefid. History Darius the Great, the Achaemenid Empire, Achaemenid Persians, Persian monarch, mentions Pâtiš ...

Mazandaran Mazandaran Province (; ) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Sari, Iran, Sari. Located along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and in the adjacent Central Alborz mountain range and Hyrcanian forests, it is border ...

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 ...

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 976 in 287 households. The following census in 2011 counted 874 people in 279 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 1,193 people in 436 households.

Geography

Location

Alasht is isolated by surrounding mountains, which gives it a cooler climate than most regions of the province.

Natural resources

Alasht has a natural spring and is also noted for being one of the few

cryotherapy Cryotherapy, sometimes known as cold therapy, is the local or general use of low temperatures in medical therapy. Cryotherapy can be used in many ways, including whole body exposure for therapeutic health benefits or may be used locally to treat ...

spots of the province. In addition,

cave Caves or caverns are natural voids under the Earth's Planetary surface, surface. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. Exogene caves are smaller openings that extend a relatively short distance undergrou ...

s in and around Alasht are rich with

mineral In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.John P. Rafferty, ed. (2011): Mi ...

s, mostly

anthracite coal Anthracite, also known as hard coal and black coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic lustre. It has the highest carbon content, the fewest impurities, and the highest energy density of all types of coal and is the highe ...

reserves.

Climate

Due to its location, Alasht is fairly cool throughout the year. Winter in the village is particularly harsh, causing most of the inhabitants to move to warmer areas for the season. However, the

rainfall Rain is a form of precipitation where water droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. ...

in the village is similar to the rest of the province, with approximately 593 millimeters of precipitation per year.

Notable people

Alasht is the birthplace of

Reza Shah Pahlavi Reza Shah Pahlavi born Reza Khan (15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944) was shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the roughly 53 years old Pahlavi dynasty. Originally a military officer, he became a politician, serving as minister of war an ...

, the founder of the

Pahlavi dynasty The Pahlavi dynasty () is an List of monarchs of Iran, Iranian royal dynasty that was the Pahlavi Iran, last to rule Iran before the country's monarchy was abolished by the Iranian Revolution in 1979. It was founded in 1925 by Reza Shah, Reza S ...

Gallery

File:Alasht road.jpg, A view of Alasht road File:Alasht Reza Khan's birth cottage01 JPG.jpg, The birthplace of

Reza Shah Reza Shah Pahlavi born Reza Khan (15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944) was shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the roughly 53 years old Pahlavi dynasty. Originally a military officer, he became a politician, serving as minister of war an ...

File:Museum of Reza Shah Pahlavi.jpg, The birthplace of

Notes

References

Populated places in Savadkuh County Cities in Mazandaran province {{Savadkuh-geo-stub