Sisakht is a city in and the capital of Dana County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad 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 6,342, in 1,528 families.

Sisakht is located on the foothills of Zagros Mountains

Zagros Mountains

The Zagros Mountains are the largest mountain range in Iran and Iraq. With a total length of 1,500 km , from northwestern Iran, and roughly correlating with Iran's western border, the Zagros range spans the whole length of the western and southwestern Iranian plateau and ends at the Strait of...

, 34 km from Yasuj

Yasuj

Yasuj is a city in and the capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 96,786, in 20,297 families.Yasuj is an industrial city in the Zagros Mountains of southwestern Iran...

, in the northern part of the province. The area of Dena is a protected area

Protected area

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History

Traces of ancient pottery have been found in excavations in Sisakht, as well as graves dating to c. 3000 BC . In Telespid, registered in the Iranian national heritage Organization list

Cultural Heritage Organization of Iran

Iran Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization is an educational and research institution overseeing numerous associated museum complexes throughout Iran. It is administered and funded by the Government of Iran....

, there are traces of Sassanian and Safavid eras.