Koshksaray
city in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Koshksaray (Persian: كشكسرائ) is a city in, and the capital of, Koshksaray District in Marand County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran. It was administrative center for Koshksaray Rural District until its capital was transferred to the village of Zanjireh.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 7,439 in 1,858 households, when it was in the Central District. The following census in 2011 counted 7,723 people in 2,244 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 12,250 people in 2980 households.
In 2020, Koshksaray Rural District and the city of Koshksaray were separated from the district in the formation of Koshksaray District.
“Koshksaray” enters the record as city in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Koshksaray, city and East 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 Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2407947. Authority coordinates are 38.461, 45.568. 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 2020.
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This entry incorporates text from “Koshksaray” 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.