Titkan
village in Iran
Titkan (Persian: تيتكان) is a city in, and the capital of, Zalaqi District in Aligudarz County, Lorestan province, Iran. The previous capital of the district was the village of Bazanvid (now known as Kish Olya).
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, Titkan's population was 255 in 45 households, when it was a village in Zalaqi-ye Sharqi Rural District. The following census in 2011 counted 431 people in 88 households. The 2016 census measured the population as 378 people in 95 households.
The village of Titkan was converted to a city in 2021.
Namesake
The city's name is also associated with Iranian Goods Trade Development (Titkan Corporation), inspired by the name of Titkan. The company specializes in supplying and manufacturing parts for industrial, construction, and mining machinery. Additionally, the corporation holds a commercial license for import and export activities.
The public source identifies “Titkan” as village in Iran. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Titkan, village and Iran.
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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 Jun 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5797034. Authority coordinates are 32.883, 49.624. 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 2021.
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This entry incorporates text from “Titkan” 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.