Kordovan-e Olya
Village in Bushehr province, Iran
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Kordovan-e Olya (Persian: کردوان علیا)[a] is a village in Kabgan Rural District[4] of Kaki District in Dashti County, Bushehr province, Iran.
Demographics
Language and dialect
The dialect of the village is the traditional dialect from Dashti. The Dashti dialect is an original Iranian dialect dating back to the Pahlavi Sassanid language and now people are using words that were used in the Pahlavi language, after some centuries.
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 679 in 159 households.[5] The following census in 2011 counted 760 people in 198 households.[6] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 696 people in 221 households.[2]
Geography
Kordovan-e Olya is at the 70km mark from Dashti and north of the Mound River. Esmail Mahmudi, Kordovan-e Sofla, Kordovan-e Raisi, Miteh, and Ziarat are nearby villages.
Culture
Most of the people are farmers and women create artifacts. Kordovan-e Olya has been the land of the scientists who were very famous in Dashti County.
Notable people
Zaer Mohammad Ali Dashti or Faez Dashti was a poet born in Kordovan-e Olya in 1834, and lived there his whole life. Abd-ol-Reza Kordavani or Mahzun was another poet in Kordovan.
