Mazhin, Iran
village in Iran
Mazhin (Persian: ماژين) is a city in, and the capital of, Mazhin District of Darreh Shahr County, Ilam province, Iran. As a village, it was the capital of Mazhin Rural District until its capital was transferred to the village of Meydan Khalaf.
Demographics
Ethnicity
The city is populated by Lurs.
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the population was 973 in 200 households, when it was a village in Mazhin Rural District. The following census in 2011 counted 1,160 people in 294 households. The 2016 census measured the population as 1,512 people in 422 households, by which time the village of Mirza Hoseynabad had merged with the villages of Fathabad, Hamgam, Heyderabad, and Irajabad to form the new city of Mazhin.
“Mazhin, Iran” enters the record as village in Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mazhin, Iran and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Mazhin, Iran” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mazhin, Iran and village provides the most credible route into that argument.
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 Q5811855. Authority coordinates are 32.950, 47.786. 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.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mazhin, Iran” 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.