Dargazin, Hamadan
Dargazin is a village in, and the capital of, Dargazin-e Sofla Rural District of the Central District of Dargazin County, Hamadan province, Iran.
History
In the 11th century, the Darjazin area had a significant population of Mazdakis and the related Khorramites. The Dargazini family of viziers was also from the area.The 14th-century author Hamdallah Mustawfi described Darjazin as previously "merely a village of the A‘lam district" that had become "a provincial capital" by his lifetime. He wrote that it had good agricultural lands that produced grain, cotton, grapes, and other fruits. Its population, he said, were devout Sunnis of the Shafi'i madhhab who followed the Shaykh al-Islam Sharaf ad-Din Darguzini. The revenue of Darguzin, he wrote, was 12,000 dinars.
The Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi passed through Darjazin in 1654 and left a description of the town's layout, as well as its garrison and fort. Evliya associated the fort with an unspecified Sasanian king named Yazdegerd, which possibly refers to Yazdegerd I. No traces of the fort survive today. By the time of Evliya's visit, Darjazin's population had become Shi'i; he described the Moharram mourning rites observed here. In the 1700s, Darjazin became contested between Iran and the Ottoman Empire.
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 2,629 in 689 households, when it was in Darjazin-e Sofla Rural District of the former Qorveh-ye Darjazin District of Razan County. The following census in 2011 counted 1,345 people in 396 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 1,331 people in 406 households.After the census, the district was separated from the county in the establishment of Dargazin County. The rural district was transferred to the new Central District and renamed Dargazin-e Sofla Rural District.