Qareh Qabaq-e Olya
village in Ardabil, Iran

Qareh Qabaq-e Olya (Persian: قره قباق عليا) is a village in Aslan Duz-e Gharbi Rural District of the Central District in Aslan Duz County, Ardabil province, Iran.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 82 in 16 households, when it was in Aslan Duz Rural District of the former Aslan Duz District in Parsabad County. The following census in 2011 counted 61 people in 15 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 98 people in 26 households.
In 2019, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Aslan Duz County. The rural district was transferred to the new Central District and renamed Aslan Duz-e Gharbi Rural District.
“Qareh Qabaq-e Olya” enters the record as village in Ardabil, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Qareh, Qabaq-e and Olya can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15269964. Authority coordinates are 39.486, 47.539. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2019.
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This entry incorporates text from “Qareh Qabaq-e Olya” 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.