Hamadan

:This page is about the city of Hamedan. For the province with this name, see Hamadan Province.

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Hamadan or Hamedan (همدان in Persian) is the capital city of Hamadan Province of Iran.

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Hamadan is believed to be the oldest Iranian (Persian) city and one of the oldest in the world.

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Hamadan is a green mountainous area on the foothills of the 3574-meter Alvand Mountain,in the mid west of Iran. The city is 1850 meters above sea level.

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The special nature of this old city and its historic sites attract tourists during the summer to this city, located approximately 400km southwest of Tehran.

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Persian: Persian can refer to:...

Hamadan Province: Hamadan is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. Its center is Hamadan city. The province of Hamadan covers an area of 19,546 km2. In the year 1996, Hamadan province had a population of approximately 1.7 million people....

Iran: Iran (Persian: ?????) is a Middle Eastern country located in Southwest Asia bordering Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Turkmenistan to the north, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the east, Turkey and Iraq to the west. Although locally known as Iran at least since the Sassanian period, until 1935 the country was ...