Setan (; also known as Sūtanī and Syutany) is a village in
Minjavan-e Gharbi Rural District
Minjavan-e Gharbi Rural District ( is in Minjavan District of Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Asheqlu.
History
In the wake of White Revolution (early 1960s) many clans of Mohammad Khan ...
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Minjavan District
Minjavan District () is in Khoda Afarin County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Asheqlu.
History
The only noteworthy allusion to the district in official records relates to an appeal by the inhabitants of th ...
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Khoda Afarin County
Khoda Afarin County () is in East Azerbaijan province, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Khomarlu.
History
Before the Islamic Revolution, the city of Khomarlu was merely a village that was distinguished from other ...
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East Azerbaijan Province
East Azerbaijan province () is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Tabriz.
The province is located in Azerbaijan (Iran), Iranian Azerbaijan, bordering Armenia, the Azerbaijan, Republic of Azerbaijan, Ardabil pro ...
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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 ...
. At the 2006 census, its population was 236, in 58 families. This is a significant drop as compared to the population of the village in early 1960s, which was 340. Still, the decline is moderate as previously more prosperous villages of
Arasbaran
Arasbaran (), also known as Qaradagh (; , ; ), is a large mountainous area stretching from the Qūshā Dāgh massif, south of Ahar, to the Aras River in East Azerbaijan province of Iran. The region is confined to Aras Riv ...
region, such as
Abbasabad, experienced on average fourfold reduction in their population and some nearby villages were abandoned. In the wake of
White Revolution
The White Revolution () or the Shah and People Revolution () was a far-reaching series of reforms to aggressively modernize the Pahlavi Iran, Imperial State of Iran launched on 26 January 1963 by the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and ended with ...
(early 1960s) a clan of
Mohammad Khanlu
Mohammad Khanlu (Moḥammad-Ḵānlū) ( محمد خانلو) is one of the six major Tribes of Arasbaran. It is a Turkified Kurdish tribe dwelling for the most part in the Arasbaran region, in East Azerbaijan province of Iran. Its summer quart ...
tribe, comprising 120 households used Setan and
Masjedlu as their winter quarters.
[P. Oberling, “The Tribes of Qarāca Dāġ,” Oriens 17, 1964, p. 69]
References
Populated places in Khoda Afarin County
Kurdish settlements in East Azerbaijan province
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