Tarom County
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Tarom County (Template:Langx) is in Zanjan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Ab Bar.[1]
History
The region of Tarom is historically divided into two parts: Upper Tarom and Lower Tarom.[2] Medieval Arabic geographers usually wrote the name as aṭ-Ṭārumayn, or "the two Taroms", reflecting this division.[2] The mountainous Upper Tarom was historically counted as part of Daylam.[2] The name "Tarom" was applied to a right-bank tributary of the Sefid Rud, and the region of Tarom comprised the river and its own tributaries.[2]
An important location in Tarom was the castle and town of Semiran, which lay in Lower Tarom on the main highway leading to Sarab.[2] The castle crowned a rocky mount above the lower town and had triple walls.[2] Ibn Muhalhal visited here c.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 943 and wrote that it was one of the main strongholds of the Daylamite kings and had about 2,850 houses.[2]
The Buyid amir Fakhr al-Dawla captured Semiran in 989 from the Vahsudan dynasty.[2] Al-Muqaddasi wrote about the same time that the fortress of Semiran had "lions of gold, and the sun and the moon" on its walls; the town's houses were built from mud brick.[2] He counted Semiran as part of the Salārvand district.[2]
Nasir-i Khusraw visited Semiran in 1046 during his pilgrimage to Mecca; he described it as the capital of Tarom.[2] Its fortress, he wrote, was garrisoned by a thousand men and had an underground conduit to supply water.[2] By the time Yaqut al-Hamawi visited Semiran in the early 1200s, the castle had been slighted by the Nizaris, although the ruins were still impressive enough that Yaqut called it "a mother of castles".[2]
Another fortress that Yaqut mentioned was Qilāt, located in the mountains on the Daylam frontier.[2] It was located atop a mountain and had belonged to the Nizaris of Alamut.[2] Below it was a town with "excellent" markets; there was also a masonry bridge with many arches crossing the stream.[2]
In the Nuzhat al-Qulub
The 14th-century author Hamdallah Mustawfi gave a detailed description of the two Taroms in his Nuzhat al-Qulub.[3] He described the two regions as fertile for agriculture – they supplied the city of Soltaniyeh with most of its fruit, he wrote – and populated mostly by Sunnis of the Shafi'i madhhab.[3] He wrote that a town called Firuzabad, which was in Lower Tarom, had formerly been the capital of the region, but by his lifetime Firuzabad had become "a complete ruin".[3] A place called Andar, which was in Upper Tarom, had replaced it as Tarom's capital.[3]
Mustawfi described the two Taroms as being divided into five districts.[3] The first consisted of the dependencies of Qal'ah Tāj ("the crown castle"), which was in Upper Tarom.[3] He said this district included about 100 villages; the most important were Jazlā, Shūrzad, Darām, Ḥayāt, Qalāt, Razīd, and Shīd.[3]
The second district was based around the castle of Semiran, in Lower Tarom.[3] This district had about 50 villages, with the most important being Alūn, Khawarnaq, Sharzūrlard, and Kalach.[3] The third district was based around the castle of Firdaws, also in Lower Tarom; this district comprised about 20 villages, with the most important being Sarvān.[3] The fourth district was based around, instead of a castle, two large villages: Nisbār and Barīdūn.[3] It consisted of 8 hamlets that were dependencies of the two main villages.[3] Mustawfi did not specified whether this district belonged to Upper or Lower Tarom.[3]
The fifth and final district was Lower Dizābād; Mustawfi said nothing about this district's affiliation either.[3] In any case, it had 25 villages; the most important were Gulhār, Gulchīn, and Balhal.[3] The combined revenue of these five districts, according to Mustawfi, was 64,000 dinars.[3]
Administrative changes
In 2019, Gilvan Rural District was separated from the Central District in the formation of Gilvan District, which included the new Tashvir Rural District.[4] The village of Gilvan was elevated to the status of a city in 2024.[5]
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the county's population was 42,939 in 10,734 households.[6] The following census in 2011 counted 46,616 people in 13,221 households.[7] The 2016 census measured the population of the county as 46,641 in 14,438 households.[8]
Administrative divisions
Tarom County's population history and administrative structure over three consecutive censuses are shown in the following table.
| Administrative Divisions | 2006[6] | 2011[7] | 2016[8] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central District | 25,284 | 27,696 | 27,838 |
| Ab Bar RD | 4,870 | 4,908 | 4,511 |
| Darram RD | 4,583 | 4,703 | 4,406 |
| Gilvan RD | 10,913 | 11,360 | 10,830 |
| Ab Bar (city) | 4,918 | 6,725 | 8,091 |
| Chavarzaq District | 17,655 | 18,920 | 18,803 |
| Chavarzaq RD | 9,616 | 9,858 | 9,624 |
| Dastjerdeh RD | 6,696 | 7,309 | 7,446 |
| Chavarzaq (city) | 1,343 | 1,753 | 1,733 |
| Gilvan DistrictTemplate:Efn | |||
| Gilvan RD | |||
| Tashvir RDTemplate:Efn | |||
| Gilvan (city)Template:Efn | |||
| Total | 42,939 | 46,616 | 46,641 |
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Geology
Tarom is part of the Tarom-Hashtjin Metallogenic Province, which is one of the most important epithermal regions in Iran.[9]Template:Rp Lead, zinc, copper, iron, and manganese are prevalent.[10]Template:Rp Compared to the Hashtjin part, copper and iron are more widespread in Tarom.[10]Template:Rp The average copper content of plutonic bodies ranges from 220 to 260 ppm.[10]Template:Rp Lead, zinc, and silver content are 600, 800, and 8 ppm respectively.[10]Template:Rp
Gold deposits are found mixed in with some copper deposits, such as at Khalifeloo, Abbasabad, and Chargar.[10]Template:Rp There are also gold deposits at Asadi and Ghez Ghal'e.[10]Template:Rp Tarom also has relatively more alunite deposits than Hashtjin, including ones at Yuzbash Chay, Kamar Rud, Nasr Abad, Sirdan, Zajkan, and Zajkandi.[10]Template:Rp There are also minor tungsten deposits, such as at Kuhian.[10]Template:Rp Sericitization is less widespread in Tarom than in Hashtjin, and "greisen-type metasomatism" has not been reported in Tarom.[10]Template:Rp
See also
Notes
References
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