Kuhbanan (Persian: كوهبنان)[a] is a city in the Central District of Kuhbanan County, Kerman province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.[4]
Kuhbanan
Persian: كوهبنان | |
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  Kuhbanan | |
| Coordinates: 31°24′36″N 56°16′57″E / 31.41000°N 56.28250°E[1] | |
| Country | Iran |
| Province | Kerman |
| County | Kuhbanan |
| District | Central |
| Population (2016)[2] | |
| • Total | 10,761 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
Etymology
editThe name Kūhbanān means "pistachio-tree mountain", from the Persian words kūh, meaning "mountain", and banān, which refers to the wild pistachio.[5]
History
editKuhbanan was described by the 10th-century writer al-Muqaddasi as a small town with two gates. The town's jameh mosque was by one of these gates. Outside the walled part of the city was a suburban area, where there were bathhouses and caravanserais. Beyond this suburban area, Kuhbanan was surrounded by farms and orchards that extended as far as the foot of the nearby mountains.[5]
Medieval Kuhbanan was renowned for its production of tutty, an impure oxide of zinc used as a salve for the eyes. As early as the 10th century, al-Muqaddasi listed tutty from Kuhbanan as one of the major exports of Kerman province. He wrote that it formed in finger-like "pipes", which were then purified by being roasted in long furnaces by the same mountainside where the ore was extracted. In the early 1200s, Yaqut al-Hamawi similarly described Kuhbanan, along with the nearby town of Behabad, as a major exporter of tutty. Marco Polo visited Kuhbinan, which he called Cobinan, in the 1300s, and provided a detailed description of the local tutty industry. Around the turn of the 20th century, the British traveler Percy Sykes witnessed the production of tutty in Kuhbanan; the process he described was essentially the same as that used hundreds of years earlier.[5]
Demographics
editPopulation
editAt the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 10,112 in 2,623 households.[6] The following census in 2011 counted 11,093 people in 3,189 households.[7] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 10,761 people in 3,296 households.[2]
See also
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editReferences
edit- ^ OpenStreetMap contributors (1 July 2023). "Kuhbanan, Kuhbanan County" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 1 July 2023.
- ^ a b "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016)". AMAR (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. p. 08. Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 October 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ Kuhbanan can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3072278" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
- ^ Aref, Mohammada Reza (25 November 1383). "Divisional reforms and changes in Kerman province". Islamic Parliament Research Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran (in Persian). Ministry of Interior, Political-Defense Commission of the Government Board. Archived from the original on 14 April 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2024.
- ^ a b c Le Strange, Guy (1905). The Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia, and Central Asia, from the Moslem Conquest to the Time of Timur. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc. p. 309. OCLC 1044046.
- ^ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)". AMAR (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. p. 08. Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011)". Syracuse University (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. p. 08. Archived from the original (Excel) on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
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