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Ahvaz or Ahwaz (both: äwäz`), city (1991 pop. 724,653), SW Iran, on the Karun River. It is an oil center, a transportation hub, and an industrial city that has petrochemical, textile, and food-processing industries. An ancient city, Ahvaz was rebuilt (3d cent. A.D.) by Ardashir I, who named it Hormuzd-Ardashir. In the 4th cent. Ahvaz became the seat of a bishopric, and a large church was built there. It was an important Arab trading center in the 12th and 13th cent. but later declined. The discovery of oil nearby in the early 20th cent. restored the city to its former importance. The new part of Ahvaz, the administrative and industrial center, is on the right bank of the Karun, but the population still is concentrated in the old section on the left bank. Ahvaz is linked by road, rail, and oil pipeline to ports on the Persian Gulf. Ahwaz, Ahvaz a town in SW Iran, on the Karun River. Pop.: 967 000 (2005 est.) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The same officer boasted that "hundreds of Hezbollah fighters
currently confronting Israel's military array took part in special
training courses at the Revolutionary Guard bases in Tehran, Isfahan,
Mashhad, and Ahvaz. of Iranian-trained revolutionaries in most other countries, and the
negative blowback Tehran has experienced from its subversive
policies--including protracted pariah status, a paucity of allies during
its eight-year war with Saddam Hussein, and now the apparent spill-over
of violence from post-Saddam Iraq into Ahvaz and other Iranian cities. |
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