Dehloran () is a city in the Central District of Dehloran County, Ilam province,

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, serving as capital of both the county and of the district.

Demographics

Language and ethnicity

The city is populated by

Kurds Kurds (), or the Kurdish people, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group from West Asia. They are indigenous to Kurdistan, which is a geographic region spanning southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northeastern Syri ...

and

Lurs The Lurs, Lors or Luris () are an Iranian people living in western and southern Iran. The four Luri branches are the Bakhtiari, Mamasani, Kohgiluyeh and Lur proper, who are principally linked by the Luri language. Lorestan province is name ...

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 27,602 in 5,787 households. The following census in 2011 counted 30,989 people in 7,623 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 32,941 people in 9,204 households.

Geography

Location

The city lies along Road 64, near the Iraqi border. A national natural monument lies in the north-eastern part of the city. Dehloran is located in the northern part of Dehloran Plain.

Dehloran plain

The ancient site of Chogha Sefid is just to the west of the village. Culturally, the plain is known as a part of "Greater Susiana." Dehloran Plain in the south of Ilam province, along with the Susiana Plain in

Khuzestan Khuzestan province () is one of the 31 Provinces of Iran. Located in the southwest of the country, the province borders Iraq and the Persian Gulf, covering an area of . Its capital is the city of Ahvaz. Since 2014, it has been part of Iran's ...

to the southwest, has been the subject of the longest and most extensive archaeological research in Iran. These two areas had been culturally very similar during the

Chalcolithic The Chalcolithic ( ) (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper. It followed the Neolithic and preceded the Bronze Age. It occurred at different periods in di ...

age. The important sites on Dehloran Plain are

Ali Kosh Ali Kosh is a small Tell of the Early Neolithic period located in Ilam in west Iran, in the Zagros Mountains. It was excavated by Frank Hole and Kent Flannery in the 1960s. In 2017, Ali Kosh was stratigraphically and chronologically revisited b ...

, Chogha Sefid, and Tepe Sabz.

Notes

References

Populated places in Dehloran County Cities in Ilam province Kurdish settlements in Ilam province Luri settlements in Ilam province {{Dehloran-geo-stub