CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
Menu
Research dossier · Places & Architecture

Baharestan, Isfahan

city in Isfahan Province, Iran

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ430773 ↗
Source-derived summary

Baharestan (Persian: بهارستان) is a city in the Central District of Isfahan County, Isfahan province, Iran. It is a new planned city 20 km southeast of Isfahan and north of the Lashtar Mountains along Isfahan-Shiraz Road.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 45,538 in 12,769 households. The following census in 2011 counted 61,647 people in 18,703 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 79,023 people in 25,118 households.

See also

Iran portal

Notes

References

External links

Project page on Naqsh-e-Jahan Pars Consulting Engineers website.

Baharestan New Town Residential Complex project investment factsheet, Iranian Urban Development and Revitalization Organization (UDRO).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Baharestan, Isfahan” as city in Isfahan Province, Iran. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Baharestan, Isfahan and city can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as city in Isfahan Province, Iran. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q430773. Authority coordinates are 32.488, 51.773. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2011 and 2016.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Baharestan, Isfahan”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Baharestan, Isfahan primary sources, Baharestan, Isfahan archive and Baharestan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Baharestan, Isfahan”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Baharestan, Isfahan” 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.