Naghadeh
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Naqadeh is a city in and the capital of Naqadeh County
Naqadeh County
Naqadeh County is a county in West Azerbaijan Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Naqadeh. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 117,831, in 27,937 families. The county is subdivided into two districts: the Central District and Mohammadyar District...

, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 72,975, in 18,320 families.

The city is located in the Gadar River
Gadar River
The Gadar River rises in the Iranian Zagros Mountains near the point where the borders of Iran, Turkey and Iraq meet. From its source, the river first flows towards the southeast and then changes course due east through the Ushnu-Solduz valley. After leaving the valley, the river turns north and...

 valley, 23 kilometres (14.3 mi) southeast of Lake Urmia
Lake Urmia
Lake Urmia , ancient name: Lake Matiene) is a salt lake in northwestern Iran, near Iran's border with Turkey. The lake is between the Iranian provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan, west of the southern portion of the similarly shaped Caspian Sea...

 at an elevation of 1300 metres (4,265.1 ft) above sea-level. The region's economy is based around agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...

, particularly the production of fruit, grain, and timber. Naqadehis nicknamed as the ulduz city of Azerbaijan.

The town is inhabited mainly by Azeris and Kurds, although it was once home to a large number of Assyrians who perished during the Assyrian Genocide
Assyrian genocide
The Assyrian Genocide refers to the mass slaughter of the Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac population of the Ottoman Empire during the 1890s, the First World War, and the period of 1922-1925...

. The main religion is Shia Islam.

Historical places

Naqadeh has several cultural and recreational attractions like "Yeddi göz" or in Kurdish "Hawt kani" and "Sultan Yaghoob". The most important worth seeing and historical places of the city are as follows:
  • Important archaeological sites in the vicinity of Naqadeh include Teppe Hasanlu
    Teppe Hasanlu
    Teppe Hasanlu or Tappeh Hassanlu is an archeological site of an ancient city located in northwest Iran , a short distance south of Lake Urmia...

    , 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) northwest of Naqadeh and famous for its "Golden Cup", and Hajji Firuz Tepe
    Hajji Firuz Tepe
    Hajji Firuz Tepe is an archaeological site located in West Azarbaijan province in northwestern Iran. The site was excavated between 1958 and 1968 by archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology...

     where some of the oldest evidence for winemaking
    Winemaking
    Winemaking, or vinification, is the production of wine, starting with selection of the grapes or other produce and ending with bottling the finished wine. Although most wine is made from grapes, it may also be made from other fruit or non-toxic plant material...

     has been uncovered.
  • Keleshin historical inscriptions in south-west to Lake Urmia
    Lake Urmia
    Lake Urmia , ancient name: Lake Matiene) is a salt lake in northwestern Iran, near Iran's border with Turkey. The lake is between the Iranian provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan, west of the southern portion of the similarly shaped Caspian Sea...

    .
  • Several wetlands.
  • Zendan and Baha Hasan caves.
  • tepe bashi central and old park of the city that has big history and american researchers believe there is a big castle under ground of it.
  • Qal'a Paswe is a very small village near Naqadeh whose name according to the Iranist Vladimir Minorsky has kept the memory of the Iranian settlements from the 9th century BCE and reminds of the "Parswa tribes" mentioned in the records of the Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser III
    Shalmaneser III
    Shalmaneser III was king of Assyria , and son of the previous ruler, Ashurnasirpal II....

    (reign 858-824 BCE)..

Language

Turks and Kurds live in this city, but Turks are the majority and Kurd who comprise 20-25% of the population, come in after Turks to this area that calls Mahal Sulduz.

Economy

The regional economy greatly depends on agricultural products, and cattle and sheep are raised both for meat and for wool. Some of this production is exported. The region's farmers also raise apples, grapes, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, peas, and other fruits. The high farm production results from the fertile soil and the use of modern machinery and scientific farming methods.
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