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Izeh
City in Khuzestan province, Iran From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Izeh (Persian: ايذه)[a] ( Luri : مالمیر) is a city in the Central District of Izeh County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.[4]
Izeh has mines of rocks and minerals. It is famous for its dam and ancient monuments that are located in Kul-e Farah, Eshkaft-e Salman, Khongazhdar, Tagh e Tavileh, Shir-e Sangi (Stone Lion cemetery), Shahsavar relief, Khong e Kamalvand, Khong e Ajdar, Khong e Yaralivand, ghalesard village (Qalesard), and Sheyvand relief.
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Demographics
Language
The majority of the population in Izeh speaks the Bakhtiari dialect of the Luri language.[5]
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 103,695 in 20,127 households.[6] The following census in 2011 counted 117,093 people in 27,084 households.[7] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 119,399 people in 30,066 households.[2]
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Izeh has a Hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) with scorching, rainless summers and comfortable, somewhat wet winters with cold and often freezing mornings.
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Notable people
- Iman Mobali Iranian retired football player and coach
- Pouya Dadmarz Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler
- Ramin Taheri Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler
- Aref Aghasi Iranian footballer
- Iman Mohammadi Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler
- Behrouz Jamshidi Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler
- Safdar Hosseini Iranian academic and politician
- Ali Landi student who saved the lives of two elderly women in a fire[9]
- Ali Salehi Iranian poet and writer
- Mahmoud Rahmani Iranian documentary filmmaker
- Sajjad Kouchaki Iranian retired
- Barat Ghobadian
Iranian Professor of Biosystems Engineering at Tarbiat Modarres University – Head of the Departemen
officer
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