Amlash County () is in

Gilan Gilan Province () is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, in the northwest of the country and southwest of the Caspian Sea. Its capital is the city of Rasht. The province lies along the Caspian Sea, in Iran's Region 3, west of the province of ...

province, in northwestern Iran. Its capital is the city of

Amlash Amlash () is a city in the Central District of Amlash County, Gilan province, in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of both the county and the district. Amlash sits at an altitude of 13 metres (45 feet). Demographics Population At ...

History

The name of the village Buyeh in this county is attributed to the

Buyid dynasty The Buyid dynasty or Buyid Empire was a Zaydi and later Twelver Shi'a dynasty of Daylamite origin. Founded by Imad al-Dawla, they mainly ruled over central and southern Iran and Iraq from 934 to 1062. Coupled with the rise of other Iranian dyn ...

of the 10th & 11th century which ruled over much of

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and most of

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. The founders like that of

Imad al-Dawla Ali ibn Buya (, ), commonly known by his ''laqab'' (honorific epithet) Imad al-Dawla (; c. 891/2 – December 949), was the founder of the Buyid amirate of Fars, ruling as its ''amir'' (ruler) from 934 to 949. Together with his two younger bro ...

were ethnically

Daylamite The Daylamites or Dailamites (Middle Persian: ''Daylamīgān''; ''Deylamiyān'') were an Iranian people inhabiting the Daylam—the mountainous regions of northern Iran on the southwest coast of the Caspian Sea, now comprising the southeastern ...

in origin.

Demographics

Language

It is a majority Gilaki speaking county entirely.

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the county's population was 46,108 in 13,222 households. The following census in 2011 counted 44,261 people in 14,191 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the county as of 43,225 in 15,306 households.

Administrative divisions

Amlash County's population history and administrative structure over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table.

Notes

References

{{Amlash County, state=collapsed Amlash County Counties of Gilan province