Quchan
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Quchan (also Quchon and Kuchan) (Persian: قوچان ) is an Iranian district in the north-east of Iran in the north of Razavi Khorasan Province. It is located due south of the border city of Ashgabat.
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[edit] Population and Tribes
As of 2005, Quchan was estimated to have a population of 105,352.
The major tribes (tayefeh) of Quchan are Kormanj Kurds as za'faranlu, picheranlu, and milanlu.
[edit] Geography
It is a mountainous region.
[edit] Famous people
[edit] History
A devastating earthquake in 1893 killed 10,000 residents in Quchan. The US press reported on 28 January 1894 that, "The bodies of ten thousand victims of the awful disaster have already been recovered. Fifty thousand cattle were destroyed at the same time. The once important and beautiful city of twenty thousand people is now only a scene of death, desolation, and terror."
[edit] References
- ↑ Allen, Thomas Gaskell Jr; Sachtleben, William Lewis (1894). Across Asia on a Bicycle, 1903, New York: The Century Co, 110.
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