Ahar
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ahar
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- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
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- فیروزه قره داغ.jpg
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- Sheikh Shahab tomb in the city of Ahar
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- Iran
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- Country
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- Iran
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- East Azerbaijan
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- County
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- Ahar
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- District
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- Central
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- 2016
- Settlement.population_total
- 100641
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is a city in the Central District of Ahar County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Ahar was the capital of Karadag Khanate in 18th and 19th centuries.
==History== Ahar is one of the ancient cities of the Azerbaijan region, its name before Islam was "meimad". In the 12th-13th centuries, Ahar was a minor and short-lived, but prosperous emirate ruled by the Pishteginid dynasty of Georgian origin (1155—1231). Yaqut al-Hamawi, writing in early thirteenth century, describes Ahar as very flourishing despite its small extent.