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Mahur Milani District

district (bakhsh) in Mamasani County, Fars Province, 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 revisionNov 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ4814101 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mahur Milani District (Persian: بخش ماهور میلانی) is in Mamasani County, Fars province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Baba Monir.

History

After the 2011 National Census, the village of Baba Monir was elevated to the status of a city.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 census, the district's population was 9,915 in 2,277 households. The following census in 2011 counted 7,311 people in 1,901 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the district as 5,297 inhabitants in 1,542 households.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mahur Milani District” as district (bakhsh) in Mamasani County, Fars Province, Iran. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2006, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Mahur, Milani 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 district (bakhsh) in Mamasani County, Fars Province, Iran. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Nov 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4814101. Authority coordinates are 29.917, 51.250. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011, 2006 and 2016.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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 “Mahur Milani District”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mahur Milani District primary sources, Mahur Milani District archive and Mahur 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 “Mahur Milani District”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Mahur Milani 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.