Place:Golestan, Iran

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NameGolestan
Alt namesGolestansource: Wikipedia
Golestânsource: Global Gazetteer online (1998-2000)
Golestānsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeProvince
Located inIran
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Bandar-e Gaz
Gonbad-e Qābūs
Kord Kūy
Āzādshahr
ʿAlīābād
Province
Gorgan
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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Golestān Province (Ostān-e Golestān) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, located in the north-east of the country and south-east of the Caspian Sea. Its capital is Gorgan.

The province was put as part of Region 1 upon the division of the provinces into 5 regions solely for coordination and development purposes on 22 June 2014.[1] Majority of its population are Sunni Muslims.

Golestān was split off from the province of Mazandaran in 1997. It has a population of 1.8 million (2016) and an area of 20,380 km2. The province is divided into the following twelve counties (shahrestans): Aliabad County, Aqqala County, Azadshahr County, Bandar-e Gaz County, Gonbad-e Qabus County, Gorgan County, Kalaleh County, Kordkuy County, Maraveh Tappeh County, Minudasht County, Ramian County, and Torkaman County. Present-day Gorgan was called Esterabad until 1937.

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History

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Human settlements in this area date back to 10,000 BC. Evidence of the ancient city of Jorjan can still be seen near the current city of Gonbad-e Kavus. It was an important city of Persia located on the Silk Road.

Under the Achaemenid Iran, it seems to have been administered as a sub-province of Parthia and is not named separately in the provincial lists of Darius and Xerxes. The Hyrcanians, however, under the leadership of Megapanus, are mentioned by Herodotus in his list of Xerxes' army during the invasion of Greece.[2]

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