Kheyrabad, Aligudarz

Kheyrabad
Persian: خيراباد
Village
Kheyrabad is located in Iran
Kheyrabad
Kheyrabad
Location within Iran
Coordinates: 33°13′33″N 49°38′00″E / 33.22583°N 49.63333°E / 33.22583; 49.63333
CountryIran
ProvinceLorestan
CountyAligudarz
DistrictBorborud-e Gharbi
Rural DistrictCheshmeh Par
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total
233
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)

Kheyrabad (Persian: خيراباد)[a] is a village in Cheshmeh Par Rural District of Borborud-e Gharbi District in Aligudarz County, Lorestan province, Iran.

This village was built in 1308 by one of the elders and owners of the village named Kodkhoda Khairgerd Jalilund Basak, after the order of settlement of the nomads by the central government on the remains of an old village called Pirdezgah Olia. After that it was named Kheyrabad.

The people of the village are from the Lor Bakhtiari tribe, the Chaharlang branch of the Basak tribe, and they speak with the Lori Bakhtiari dialect. All the residents follow the religion of Islam and the Shia religion of the Twelve Imams. Their occupation is agriculture and animal husbandry. Their products are wheat, barley, and potatoes.

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 331 in 46 households, when it was in Borborud-e Gharbi Rural District of the Central District.[3] The following census in 2011 counted 269 people in 50 households.[4] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 233 people in 54 households,[1] by which time the rural district had been separated from the district in the formation of Borborud-e Gharbi District. Kheyrabad was transferred to Cheshmeh Par Rural District created in the new district.

See also

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Notes

  1. ↑ Also romanized as Kheir Abad and Kheyrābād[2]

References

  1. 1 2 سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1395 : استان لرستان [General Population and Housing Census 2016: Lorestan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2026.
  2. ↑ Kheyrabad at GEOnet Names Server
  3. ↑ سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1385 : استان لرستان [General Population and Housing Census 2006: Lorestan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2026.
  4. ↑ سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1390 : استان لرستان [General Population and Housing Census 2011: Lorestan Province]. Iran Data Portal—Syracuse University (in Persian). مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran]. Archived from the original (Excel) on 19 January 2023. Retrieved 9 June 2026.
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