Qaleh-ye Qarah Jalar
village in Iran
Qaleh-ye Qarah Jalar (Persian: قلعه قره جلر) is a village in Qezel Alan Rural District of Goldasht District in Gomishan County, Golestan province, Iran.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 237 in 59 households, when it was in Jafarbay-ye Sharqi Rural District of the former Gomishan District in Torkaman County. The following census in 2011 counted 277 people in 71 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Gomishan County. The rural district was transferred to the new Goldasht District, and Qaleh-ye Qarah Jalar was transferred to Qezel Alan Rural District created in the same district. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 314 people in 86 households.
The public source identifies “Qaleh-ye Qarah Jalar” as village in Iran. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Qaleh-ye, Qarah and Jalar.
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This entry incorporates text from “Qaleh-ye Qarah Jalar” 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.