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Giyan Rural District

rural district in Hamadan, 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 authorityQ4253824 ↗
Source-derived summary

Giyan Rural District (Persian: دهستان گیان) is in Giyan District of Nahavand County, Hamadan province, Iran. It is administered from the city of Giyan.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population was 2,705 in 714 households. There were 3,038 inhabitants in 851 households at the following census of 2011. The 2016 census measured the population of the rural district as 2,863 in 830 households. The most populous of its six villages was Hoseynabad-e Giyan, with 1,017 people.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Giyan Rural District” as rural district in Hamadan, Iran. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. 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 Giyan, Rural and District can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as rural district in Hamadan, 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 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4253824. Authority coordinates are 34.150, 48.267. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. 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 “Giyan Rural District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Giyan Rural District primary sources, Giyan Rural District archive and Giyan 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 “Giyan Rural District”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Giyan Rural District” 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.