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Ebrahimabad, Buin Zahra

village in Iran

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ5332003 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ebrahimabad (Persian: ابراهيم اباد) is a village in, and the capital of, Ebrahimabad Rural District in Ramand District of Buin Zahra County, Qazvin province, Iran.

Demographics

Language

The primary language of the people is Tati language.

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 806 in 236 households. The following census in 2011 counted 956 people in 273 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 938 people in 300 households.

Notable people

Dr. Fariborz Raisdana who was an Iranian economist, socialist, activist, professor, and a member of the Iranian Writers Association was born and buried in Ebrahimabad.

Manouchehr Ganji, a human rights activist and a former Minister of Education of Iran was born in Ebrahimabad.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ebrahimabad, Buin Zahra” is village in Iran. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ebrahimabad, Buin and Zahra, not as a finished interpretation.

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. For this dossier, Ebrahimabad, Buin and Zahra is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in Iran” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5332003. Authority coordinates are 35.821, 49.872. 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.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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 “Ebrahimabad, Buin Zahra”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ebrahimabad, Buin Zahra primary sources, Ebrahimabad, Buin Zahra archive and Ebrahimabad 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 “Ebrahimabad, Buin Zahra”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ebrahimabad, Buin Zahra” 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.