Fakhab
suburb in Rasht, Gilan Province, Iran
Fakhab (Persian: فخب; also known as Esţakhr Faḩāb, Fagab, and Istakharfihāb) is a suburban neighborhood of Rasht city in Gilan Province, Iran.
Formerly, it was a village in Pir Bazar Rural District, in the Central District of Rasht County. At the 2006 census, its population was 3,851, in 1,039 families. Fakhab is on the banks of Gohar Rud river.
Suburb of Rasht
Fakhab became a neighborhood in the urban area of Rasht. As a suburb of Greater Rasht, Fakhab has faced health problems such as poor garbage management and pollution of Gohar Rud by sewage. People of the area are mostly from the poorer classes of society.
“Fakhab” enters the record as suburb in Rasht, Gilan Province, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fakhab, suburb and Rasht can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Fakhab” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fakhab, suburb and Rasht provides the most credible route into that argument.
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 Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5757021. Authority coordinates are 37.311, 49.563. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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.
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Three-step research path
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Fakhab” 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.