Alavi, Hamadan
village in Iran
Alavi (Persian: علوي) is a village in, and the capital of, Tork-e Sharqi Rural District in the Central District of Malayer County, Hamadan province, Iran. The previous capital of the rural district was the village of Eslamabad, now the city of Eslamshahr-e Aqgol.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 2,509 in 576 households, when it was in Jowkar District. The following census in 2011 counted 2,532 people in 746 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 2,660 people in 798 households, by which time the rural district had been transferred to the Central District.
“Alavi, Hamadan” enters the record as village in Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alavi, Hamadan and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Alavi, Hamadan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Alavi, Hamadan and village provides the most credible route into that argument.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4708876. Authority coordinates are 34.542, 48.938. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.
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This entry incorporates text from “Alavi, Hamadan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.