Pasveh
Village in West Azerbaijan province, Iran
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Pasveh (Persian: پسوه)[a] is a village in, and the capital of, Lahijan-e Sharqi Rural District[4] in Lajan District of Piranshahr County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran.
Pasveh
Persian: پسوه | |
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Village | |
  Pasveh | |
| Coordinates: 36°47′52″N 45°19′44″E[1] | |
| Country | Iran |
| Province | West Azerbaijan |
| County | Piranshahr |
| District | Lajan |
| Rural District | Lahijan-e Sharqi |
| Population (2016)[2] | |
• Total | 3,495 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
Parsua civilization
Pasveh has a strategic location controlling the "easy" pass between the Lahijan district, in the Lesser Zab headwaters, and the Lake Urmia basin.[5]: 79
According to Vladimir Minorsky, Pasveh represents the name and location of the ancient Parsua kingdom.[5]: 79 He explained the difference in name by saying that r-deletion in consonant clusters is well-attested.[5]: 79 Pasveh was a frontier outpost near the Parsua's southern border (their core territory was probably the fertile Solduz district further north).[5]: 79
In the early 1200s, Yaqut al-Hamawi visited Pasveh and left a description in his works.[5]: 79 A century later, Hamdallah Mustawfi included an entry for it (here spelled Basavā or Pasavā) in his Nuzhat al-Qulub.[6] He described it as a small town in the tuman of Maragheh whose surrounding agricultural district produced grain, grapes, and some other fruits; he said its tax value was assessed at 25,000 dinars.[6] Pasveh later features in the accounts of Kurdish tribal feuds in the Sharafnama.[5]: 79 Much later, when Minorsky visited Pasveh in 1911, he described it as a "desolate" town with a "dilapidated" fort.[5]: 79
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 2,977 in 515 households.[7] The following census in 2011 counted 3,777 people in 795 households.[8] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 3,495 people in 869 households. It was the most populous village in its rural district.[2]
