Damghan County

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are very few or no other articles that link to this one.
Please help introduce links in articles on related topics. After links have been created, remove this message.
This article has been tagged since October 2006.

Damghan County (Persian: شهرستان دامغان) is a county in Semnan Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Damghan.

1 City and Towns
2 Tourist Attractions
3 Transport
4 See Also
5 References

[edit] City and Towns

Consists of 2 districts, Main/Central and Seyd Abbad. The main district consists of Damghan city and Dibaj. Cheshme Ali located here. The Seyd Abbad district forms the most part of county. The main town is Amiriyyeh located South-West of Damghan. Other important villages are: Mehmandust, Naim Abad, Tazareh, Kalateh, Tuyeh & Darvar, Qosheh, Hassan Abad, Rashm.

[edit] Tourist Attractions

Damghan city itself has many ancient and historical places. However outside the City also there are some attractions like:

Toghrol Tower in Mehmandust
Cheshmeh Ali and its fort
Dibaj Sarcheshmeh and Imamzadeh
Abbasi Carvansaray
Gerd Kuh
Mansurkuh and Mehrnegar
Cheshmeh & Tom of Baba Ali in north of Naim Abad
Dam on Damghanrood
Dasht-e Kavir

[edit] Transport

Main Tehran-Mashhad railway is 5 km south of Damghan. Damghan is alongside of Tehran-Mashhad Highway. From south there is main road to Isfahan and Yazd, and northward from Cheshmeh Ali & Tuyeh Darvar to Sari and through Dibaj to Behshahr & Gorgan.