Shavand

Shavand is a village in, and the capital of, Dargazin-e Olya Rural District of Shahanjarin District, Dargazin County, Hamadan province, Iran. The previous capital of the rural district was the village of Changarin, now the city of Shahanjarin.

Demographics

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 978 in 232 households, when it was in Darjazin-e Olya Rural District of the former Qorveh-ye Darjazin District of Razan County. The following census in 2011 counted 955 people in 272 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 924 people in 282 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 Shahanjarin District and renamed Dargazin-e Olya Rural District.

The 14th-century author Hamdallah Mustawfi listed Shavand as one of the main villages in the A‘lam district under Hamadan.

Bahman Ansari, an Iranian historian and writer, is originally from this village.