Izeh () ( Luri : مالمیر) is a city in the
Central District of
Izeh County,
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 ...
province,
Iran
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, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Izeh has mines of rocks and minerals. It is famous for its dam and ancient monuments that are located in
Kul-e Farah
Kul-e Farah () (Henceforth KF) is an archaeological site and open-air sanctuary situated in the Zagros Mountains, Zagros mountain valley of Izeh/Mālamir, in south-western Iran, around 800 meters over sea level. Six Elamite rock reliefs are lo ...
,
Eshkaft-e Salman, Khongazhdar,
Tagh e Tavileh,
Shir-e Sangi (Stone Lion cemetery),
Shahsavar relief, Khong e Kamalvand, Khong e Ajdar, Khong e Yaralivand, ghalesard village (Qalesard), and
Sheyvand relief.
Demographics
Language
The majority of the population in Izeh speaks the
Bakhtiari dialect of the
Luri language
Luri (, ) is a Southwestern Iranian language continuum spoken by the Lurs, an Iranian people native to West Asia. The Luri dialects are descended from Middle Persian and are Central Luri, Bakhtiari,G. R. Fazel, 'Lur', in Muslim Peoples: A W ...
.
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 103,695 in 20,127 households.
The following census in 2011 counted 117,093 people in 27,084 households.
The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 119,399 people in 30,066 households.
Climate
Izeh has a
Hot-summer Mediterranean climate
A Mediterranean climate ( ), also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen and Trewartha as ''Cs'', is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude). Such climates typic ...
(
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* Bernd Köppen (1951–2014), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author ...
''Csa'') with scorching, rainless summers and comfortable, somewhat wet winters with cold and often freezing mornings.
Notable people
*
Iman Mobali Iranian retired football player and coach
*
Pouya Dadmarz Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler
*
Ramin Taheri Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler
*
Aref Aghasi Iranian footballer
*
Iman Mohammadi Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler
*
Behrouz Jamshidi Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler
*
Safdar Hosseini Iranian academic and politician
*
Ali Landi student who saved the lives of two elderly women in a fire
*
Ali Salehi
Seyed Ali Salehi (born April 1954 in Khuzestan Province, Khuzestan) is a contemporary Iranian poetry, Iranian poet and writer. He is one of the founders of the Pure Wave movement and the founder of speech poetry and meta-speech poetry in contempo ...
Iranian poet and writer
*
Mahmoud Rahmani
Mahmoud Rāhmaní (also spelt Mahmood Rāhmaní, , born 1980) is an Iranian documentary filmmaker and screenwriter.
Born in Izeh, Iran, he has an honours degree from the First Professional Workshop of the Documentary and Experimental Film Center ...
Iranian documentary filmmaker
*
Sajjad Kouchaki
Sajjad Kouchaki () is an Iranian retired military officer who served as the Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy from 2005 to 2007.
According to an analysis published by The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Kouchaki was "on ...
Iranian retired
*
Barat Ghobadian
Iranian Professor of Biosystems Engineering at Tarbiat Modarres University – Head of the Departemen
officer
See also
Notes
References
External links
IḎEH Encyclopædia Iranica
Ayapirat fravahr.org
Cities in Khuzestan province
Populated places in Izeh County
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