Pasveh

Pasveh (Persian: پسوه, also Romanized as Pasevh and Pasooh; also known as Qal‘eh Paswah and Qal‘eh-ye Pasveh)[1] is a village in Lahijan-e Sharqi Rural District, Lajan District, Piranshahr County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,977, in 515 families.[2] Pasveh has a strategic location controlling the "easy" pass between the Lahijan district, in the Lesser Zab headwaters, and the Lake Urmia basin.[3]: 79 

Pasveh
پسوه
village
Pasveh
Coordinates: 36°47′53″N 45°19′48″E
Country Iran
ProvinceWest Azerbaijan
CountyPiranshahr
BakhshLajan
Rural DistrictLahijan-e Sharqi
Population
 (2006)
 • Total2,977
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+4:30 (IRDT)

According to Vladimir Minorsky, Pasveh represents the name and location of the ancient Parsua kingdom.[3]: 79  He explained the difference in name by saying that r-deletion in consonant clusters is well-attested.[3]: 79  Pasveh was a frontier outpost near the Parsua's southern border (their core territory was probably the fertile Solduz district further north).[3]: 79 

In the early 1200s, Yaqut al-Hamawi visited Pasveh and left a description in his works.[3]: 79  A century later, Hamdallah Mustawfi included an entry for it (here spelled Basavā or Pasavā) in his Nuzhat al-Qulub.[4] 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.[4] Pasveh later features in the accounts of Kurdish tribal feuds in the Sharafnama.[3]: 79  Much later, when Minorsky visited Pasveh in 1911, he described it as a "desolate" town with a "dilapidated" fort.[3]: 79 

References
  1. Pasveh can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3078050" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
  2. "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)" (Excel). Statistical Center of Iran. Archived from the original on 2011-11-11.
  3. Minorsky, Vladimir (1957). "Mongol Place-Names in Mukri Kurdistan". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 19 (1): 58–81. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  4. Hamdallah Mustawfi (1919). Le Strange, Guy (ed.). The Geographical Part of the Nuzhat-al-Qulub. p. 88. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
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