Andimeshk

關於Andimeshk

Andimeshk (Persian: اندیمشک) is a city in the Central District of Andimeshk County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. The city is about 34 kilometres (21 mi) north of Shush, on the main road and the rail line between Tehran and Ahvaz.

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 119,422 in 26,140 households. The following census in 2011 counted 126,811 people in 32,904 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 135,116 people in 39,151 households.

The name first appears in cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia from the Ur III period (21st to 20th century BCE) in the form "Adamshakh", with a probable meaning "Crocodile (Town)". Later it was called "Andamaska" or "Andimaska", meaning "plenty of butter"; local villages like Gheel-AB and Lour and two fortresses were added to it. The city was en route to Elam and Anshan and subsequently to Lorestan, which made it strategically important until the late Sasanian era.

In the Andimeshk region, an individual known as Saleh-Khan Mukri (a Kurd from Kermanshah and the ruler of Shushtar during the Qajar era...

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