Ahwaz
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Ahvāz اهواز |
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| Nickname(s): The City of Bridges | ||
 Ahvāz
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| Coordinates: 31°19′13″N 48°40′09″E / 31.32028°N 48.66917°ECoordinates: 31°19′13″N 48°40′09″E / 31.32028°N 48.66917°E | ||
| Country | Iran | |
| Province | Khuzestan | |
| County | Ahvaz | |
| Bakhsh | Central | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Seyed Khalaf Musavi | |
| Area | ||
| • City | 528 km2 (204 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 17 m (52 ft) | |
| Population (2011 census) | ||
| • City | 1,112,021 | |
| • Density | 2,100/km2 (5,500/sq mi) | |
| • Metro | 1,136,989 | |
| Demonym(s) | Ahvazi | |
| Time zone | IRST (UTC+3:30) | |
| • Summer (DST) | IRDT (UTC+4:30) | |
| Postal code | 61xxx | |
| Area code(s) | (+98) 61 | |
| Website | www |
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Ahvaz or Ahwaz (Persian: اهواز Ahvāz) is a city in the southwest of Iran, and the capital of the oil and natural gas wealthy Khuzestan province. At the 2011 census, its population was 1,112,021 and its built-up (or metro) area with Sheybany was home to 1,136,989 inhabitants. Iran's only navigable river, Karun passes by the middle of the city. It has a long history dating back to the Achaemenid period. In the ancient times, it had been one of the main centers of the Academy of Gondishapur.
It is home to several universities, institutions, prominent companies and sport clubs. In Iran, it is known for its ethnic diversity. it is home to Persians, Lurs, Iranian Arabs, Jews, Iranian Armenians and Mandaeans, hence different languages are spoken in it although the lingua franca remains Persian.
The word Ahvaz is a Persianized form, which in turn itself is derived from a Persian word. The Dehkhoda Dictionary specifically defines the "Suq-al-Ahvaz" as "Market of the Khuzis", where "Suq" is the elamite word for market, and "Ahvaz" is a broken plural (اسم جمع) of the form "af'āl" (افعال) of the word "Huz", which itself comes from the Persian Huz, from Achaemenid inscriptions where the term first appears. Thus, "Ahvaz" in Persian means "the Huz-i people", which refers to the non-Arabic original inhabitants of Khūzestān.
The name of the region appears in medieval Syriac sources as ܒܝܬ ܗܘܙܝܐ Beṯ Huzáyé, literally meaning "land of the Huzis".
The term "Huz", meanwhile, is the Old Persian rendition of Suz (Susa-Susiana), the native Elamite name of the region. See Origin of the name Khuzestan and Elam#Etymology for more details.
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