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Sowme'eh Sara

Coordinates: 37°18′00″N 49°18′51″E / 37.30000°N 49.31417°E / 37.30000; 49.31417
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For the parliamentary constituency, see Sowme'eh Sara (electoral district).
For the administrative division of Gilan province, see Sowme'eh Sara County. For the village in Ardabil province, see Sowmaeh Sara. For other places with a similar name, see Sowmeeh.

Sowme'eh Sara
Persian: صومعه سرا
City
Sowme'eh Sara is located in Iran
Sowme'eh Sara
Sowme'eh Sara
Coordinates: 37°18′00″N 49°18′51″E / 37.30000°N 49.31417°E / 37.30000; 49.31417[1]
CountryIran
ProvinceGilan
CountySowme'eh Sara
DistrictCentral
Population
 (2016)[2]
 • Total47,083
Time zoneUTC+3:30 (IRST)

Sowme'eh Sara (Persian: صومعه‌سرا)[a] is a city in the Central District of Sowme'eh Sara County, Gilan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.[4] The city is on the south coast of the Caspian Sea, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Rasht.

Demographics

Language and ethnicity

People of Sowme'eh Sara are mostly Gilaks and they speak the Sowme'eh Sarai variety of Western Gilaki language.[5][6][7][8] [9] [10]

Linguistic composition of the city.[11]

Sowme'eh Sara linguistic composition
language percent
New Persian
 
 70%
Gilaki
 
 25%
Azerbaijani
 
 5%

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 36,522 in 10,070 households.[12] The following census in 2011 counted 40,978 people in 12,325 households.[13] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 47,083 people in 15,331 households.[2]

Agriculture

Rice has been cultivated in this region for many years, where some indigenous cultivars (landrace) were conventionally bred by farmers.[14]

See also

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Notes

  1. ^ Also romanized as Şowma‘eh Sarā, Şowme‘eh Sarā, Sumasara, Şūme‘eh Sarā, and Sumehsara; also known as Somee Sara; Template:Lang-glk[3]

References

  1. ^ OpenStreetMap contributors (10 October 2023). "Sowme'eh Sara, Sowme'eh Sara County" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016)". AMAR (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. p. 01. Archived from the original (Excel) on 4 December 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  3. ^ Sowme'eh Sara can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3086328" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
  4. ^ Habibi, Hassan (12 September 1990). "Approval of the organization and chain of citizenship of the elements and units of the national divisions of Gilan province centered on the city of Rasht". Islamic Parliament Research Center (in Persian). Ministry of Interior, Defense Political Commission of the Government Board. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  5. ^ Jahangiri, Dr. Nader. گویش گیلکی لاهیجان [Lahijani Dialect of Gilaki] (in Persian). Iran: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
  6. ^ Resaei, Ayoub (2006). "گویش گیلکی فومنات". Fumanat's Dialect of Gilaki (in Persian). Iran: Allameh Tabataba'i University: 65.
  7. ^ Sotoudeh, Manouchehr (1953). فرهنگ گیلکی [Gilaki Culture] (in Persian and Gilaki). Iran: فرهنگ ایلیا. pp. 17, 18.
  8. ^ Shokri, Giti (2006). گویش رامسری [Ramsari Dialect] (in Persian). Iran: پژوهشگاه علوم انسانی و مطالعات فرهنگی. p. 14.
  9. ^ "Glottolog 4.6 - Western Gilaki".
  10. ^ "Gilaki".
  11. ^ "Language distribution: Gilan Province". Iran Atlas. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  12. ^ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006)". AMAR (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. p. 01. Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
  13. ^ "Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011)". Syracuse University (in Persian). The Statistical Center of Iran. p. 01. Archived from the original (Excel) on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  14. ^ Pazuki, Arman & Sohani, Mehdi (2013). "Phenotypic evaluation of scutellum-derived calluses in 'Indica' rice cultivars" (PDF). Acta Agriculturae Slovenica. 101 (2): 239–247. doi:10.2478/acas-2013-0020. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
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