Tālesh () is a city in the
Central District of
Talesh County
Talesh County () is in Gilan province, in northwestern Iran. Its capital is the city of Tālesh (also known as Hashtpar).
History
The Talysh peoples are, as archaeological studies show, one of the oldest inhabitants of the western littor ...
,
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,
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 ...
, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
Demographics
Language
The Iranian dialect of Tālesh is a dialect of
Talysh
Talysh may refer to:
*Talysh people, an ethnic group of Iran and Azerbaijan
**Talysh language, the West Iranian language of these people
** Talysh, a historical region on the southwestern coast of the Caspian Sea, inhabited by the Talysh people
*T ...
language.
[Asatrian, Garnik and ]Habib Borjian
Habib Borjian is a linguist who specializes in a wide variety of matters, including historical linguistics, language documentation, philology and Iranian languages and literature. He was educated at Columbia University, the University of Tehran a ...
, 2005. Talish: people and language: The state of research. ''Iran and the Caucasus'' 9/1, p 43-72 The Iranian disability activist and artist
Mitra Farazandeh was born in this town.
Linguistic composition of the city.
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 41,486 in 10,688 households.
The following census in 2011 counted 52,344 people in 14,984 households.
The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 54,178 people in 16,832 households.
See also
Notes
References
Cities in Gilan province
Populated places in Talesh County
Azerbaijani settlements in Gilan province
Talysh settlements in Gilan province
Kurdish settlements in Gilan province
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