# Balavah
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{{Short description|City in Ilam province, Iran}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}
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|name = Balavah
|native_name = {{langx|fa|بلاوه}}
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|settlement_type = City
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|coordinates = {{Coord|33|40|02|N|46|48|13|E|dim:1km|display=inline,title}}
|coordinates_footnotes = [{{Cite map |author=((OpenStreetMap contributors)) |url=https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=33.667222&mlon=46.803611&zoom=15#map=15/33.66722/46.80361|website=[OpenStreetMap](/source/OpenStreetMap) |title=Balavah, Chardavol County|date=22 November 2024|access-date=22 November 2024|lang=fa}}]
|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{flag|Iran}}
|subdivision_type1 = [Province](/source/Provinces_of_Iran)
|subdivision_name1 = [Ilam](/source/Ilam_province)
|subdivision_type2 = [County](/source/Counties_of_Iran)
|subdivision_name2 = [Chardavol](/source/Chardavol_County)
|subdivision_type3 = [District](/source/Bakhsh_(administrative_division))
|subdivision_name3 = [Zagros](/source/Zagros_District)
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|population_footnotes = [{{cite report|title=Approval letter regarding national divisions in Ilam province|language=fa|website=rc.majlis.ir|via=Islamic Parliament Research Center|url=http://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/848709|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919031845/http://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/848709|archive-date=19 September 2016|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Board of Ministers|last=Rahimi|first=Mohammad Reza|orig-date=Approved 29 March 1392|date=c. 2016|id=Proposal 81072/42/1/4/1; Notification 83592/T48494H|access-date=3 June 2023}}] also romanized as '''Belāvah Tareh-ye Soflá'''; also known as '''Belāveh Tareh'''[{{GEOnet3|-3794196|Belavah Tareh-ye Sofla}}]}} is a city in, and the capital of, [Zagros District](/source/Zagros_District) of [Chardavol County](/source/Chardavol_County),{{efn|Formerly [Shirvan and Chardavol County](/source/Chardavol_County)[{{cite report|title=Creation and formation of seven rural districts including villages, farms and places in Shirvan and Chardavol County under Ilam province|language=fa|website=rc.majlis.ir|via=Islamic Parliament Research Center|url=https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/110217|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512102110/https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/110217|archive-date=12 May 2012|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Council of Ministers|last=Mousavi|first=Mirhossein|access-date=7 February 2024|date=23 February 1391|orig-date=Approved 4 October 1366|id=Proposal 11742; Notification 78076/T640}}] until its capital was transferred to the village of [Zir Tang](/source/Zir_Tang%2C_Ilam).[{{Cite web|title=Language distribution: Ilam Province|url=http://iranatlas.net/index.html?module=module.language-distribution.ilam|url-status=live|access-date=24 March 2021|website=Iran Atlas|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114091241/http://iranatlas.net/index.html?module=module.language-distribution.ilam |archive-date=2021-01-14 }}]
===Population===
At the time of the 2006 National Census, Balavah's population was 290 in 63 households, when it was a village in Bijnavand Rural District of the [Central District](/source/Central_District_(Chardavol_County)).[{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006): Ilam Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=amar.org.ir|url=http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/16.xls|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920094337/http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/16.xls|format=Excel|archive-date=20 September 2011}}] The following census in 2011 counted 288 people in 76 households.[{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011): Ilam Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=irandataportal.syr.edu|via=Iran Data Portal, Syracuse University|url=https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Ilam.xls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117202401/https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Ilam.xls|archive-date=17 January 2023|access-date=19 December 2022|format=Excel}}] The 2016 census measured the population as 264 people in 79 households,[{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): Ilam Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=amar.org.ir|url=https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_16.xlsx|access-date=19 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101180736/https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_16.xlsx|format=Excel|archive-date=1 November 2020}}] by which time the rural district had been separated from the district in the formation of Zagros District. Balavah Tareh-ye Sofla was elevated to city status as Balavah.