Ahvaz, also known as Ahwaz or Al-Ahwaz, is a city in the southwest of Iran and the capital of Khuzestan province. Ahvaz’s population is about 1,300,000 and its built-up area with the nearby town of Sheybani is home to 1,136,989 inhabitants. Ahvaz is a city found in Khuzestan, Iran. It is located 31.32 latitudes and 48.68 longitudes and it is situated at elevation 23 meters above sea level. Ahvaz has a population of 841,145 making it the biggest city in Khuzestan. It operates on the IRDT time zone.
Historical, Cultural facts & Religion
At this time, the newly founded Ahvaz was named Nâseri in honor to its founder Nassereddin Shah Qajar. Afterward, during the Pahlavi period, it resumed its old name, Ahvaz. The government of the Khūzestān Province was transferred there from Shûshtar in 1926. The majority are Shia Muslims, while a minority, concentrated in the coastal areas, are Sunni Muslims.
Brief City History
Ahvaz, Arabic Ahwaz, city, capital of Khūzestān province, southwestern Iran. Ahvaz is situated on both banks of the Kārūn River where it crosses a low range of sandstone hills. The town has been identified with Achaemenid Tareiana, a river crossing on the royal road connecting Susa, Persepolis, and Pasargadae. Ardashīr I, the Sāsānian king (224–241 CE) who rebuilt the town, named it Hormuzd Ardashīr. He dammed the river, providing irrigation water, and the town prospered. When the Muslim Arabs conquered it in the 7th century, they renamed it Sūq al-Ahwaz (“Market of the Ahwaz”). Ahwaz is the Arabic name for the Hūzī (or Khūzī), a local warlike tribe that gave its name to the historical region of Khūzestān. Arab historians of the 12th century described Ahwaz as the centre of large sugarcane- and rice-growing area irrigated by a system of great canals from a dam constructed across the river on solid rock. Ahvaz had begun to decline in the 19th century when the dam collapsed and nearly destroyed the town. The discovery of oil in Khūzestān in the 20th century brought new prosperity to Ahvaz. Because of its location near the border with Iraq, Ahvaz was heavily bombarded during the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88). Nonetheless, a steel complex west of the town began operating in 1989. Ahvaz is at a junction of two branches of the Trans-Iranian Railway. It is also connected with Ābādān, Khorramshahr, Shūshtar, Dezfūl, and the oil fields by road and with Tehrān by air. Shahid Chamran University (1955; formerly Jundi Shapūr University) is located there.
Language (s) Written & Spoken
Languages spoken here are Farsi (Persian) and ethnic languages, primarily Azari Turkish.
Important Types of Commerce in Ahvaz
Textiles are the second most important industrial product; Tehran and Esfahan are the chief textile-producing centres. Other major industries are sugar refining, food processing, and the production of petrochemicals, cement and other building materials, and machinery.
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