Zonuz
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Zonouz (Zonuz) زنوز |
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 Zonouz (Zonuz)
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| Coordinates: 38°35′17″N 45°49′49″E / 38.58806°N 45.83028°ECoordinates: 38°35′17″N 45°49′49″E / 38.58806°N 45.83028°E | |
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 Iran
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| Province | East Azerbaijan |
| County | Marand |
| Bakhsh | Central |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 2,618 |
| Time zone | IRST (UTC+3:30) |
| • Summer (DST) | IRDT (UTC+4:30) |
Zonouz or Zonuz (Persian: زنوز; Azerbaijani: zunuz; also Romanized as Zunus) is a city in the Central District of Marand County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,618, in 826 families.
Zonouz is located on a mountain, and has cold and snowy weather in winter and moderate summers.civilization and culture of city related to Bronze Age (3800 BC), and Kura – Arax culture. The Zonouz valley is located between two mountain ranges, extending east to west. The mountain ranges are connected to each other in the east by Soltan Sanjar Mountain. The height of these mountains decreases from east to west. Soltan Sanjar has an altitude of 3,168 meters; other mountains namely,– Nevasar, Gerdehowul and Diragah – range from 2500 to 2200 meters in height.
According to French geologist Hubet Rieben, Zonouz is formed by rocks from the Devonian to the Quaternary period (the age of rocks is related to different geologic periods).
Zonouz (at an altitude of 1800–1900 meters), and also in the east of Zonouzag at an altitude of 2000 meters. Many springs emerge from these travertine stones – Kal-las-ser and Ali Suei springs, for example.
Zonouz has a continental climate, with cold winters and cool summers.
Zonouz is divided into four districts: Khan Khajeh, Meerjan, Seyedlar and Dibin.
The origins of the Azeris probably derive from ancient mixed Iranian and Turkic peoples (such as the Medes in Iranian Azarbaijan mixed with Oguz invaders who arrived during the eighth century BCE). It is believed that the Medes mixed with other indigenous population, the Caucasian Mannai (a northeast Caucasian group related to the Urartians). Ancient written accounts, such as one written by Arab historian Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Masudi(896-956), attest to an Turk presence in the region: "The Azerbaijanian are a people whose borders are the Mahat Mountains and Azarbaijan up to Armenia and Aran, and Bayleqan and Darband, and Ray and Tabaristan and Masqat and Shabaran and Jorjan and Abarshahr, and that is Nishabur, and Herat and Marv and other places in land of Khorasan, ...All these lands were once one kingdom. The language, however, is one, in that its letters are written the same way and used the same way in composition. There are, then, different languages such as turkmeni, Azari (ancient Persian) as well as other languages." A poem from Shah Ismaeil Safina-yi Tabriz exists which is written in the Turkish dialect of Azerbaijan.
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