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Fath ol Mobin, Iran

village in 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 authorityQ5791641 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fath ol Mobin (Persian: فتح ‌المبین) is a city in, and the capital of, Fath ol Mobin District of Shush County, Khuzestan province, Iran. It also serves as the administrative center for Sorkheh Rural District.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the population was 2,428 in 374 households, when it was the village of Saleh Moshatat in Sorkheh Rural District. The following census in 2011 counted 2,769 people in 594 households, by which time the village had been elevated to the status of a city. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 2,973 people in 722 households, when the city had been renamed Fath ol Mobin.

Editorial summary

“Fath ol Mobin, Iran” enters the record as village in Iran. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fath, Mobin and Iran can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fath, Mobin and Iran.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Fath ol Mobin, Iran” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fath, Mobin and Iran provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Q5791641. Authority coordinates are 32.313, 48.145. 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.

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 “Fath ol Mobin, Iran”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Fath ol Mobin, Iran primary sources, Fath ol Mobin, Iran archive and Fath 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 “Fath ol Mobin, Iran”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Fath ol Mobin, 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.