Bezenjan

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'''Bezenjan''' ({{langx|fa|بزنجان}}){{efn|Also [[romanize]]d as '''Bezenjān'''; also known as '''Bezenjānī''', '''Bīzenjān''', '''Bizinjān''', and '''Now Bezenjān'''<ref>{{GEOnet3|142239}}</ref>}} is a city in the [[Central District (Baft County)|Central District]] of [[Baft County]], [[Kerman province|Kerman province, Iran]], serving as the administrative center for [[Bezenjan Rural District]].<ref name="Baft County Rural Districts">{{cite report|title=Creation and formation of 14 rural districts including villages, fields and places in Baft County under Kerman province|language=fa|website=rc.majlis.ir|via=Islamic Parliament Research Center|url=https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/110360|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605140936/https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/110360|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Board of Ministers|last=Mousavi|first=Mirhossein|archive-date=5 June 2016|date=16 June 1395|orig-date=Approved 18 May 1366|id=Proposal 53.1.11936; Notification 118248/T948|access-date=31 January 2024}}</ref>

==Demographics== ===Population=== At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city population was 4,417 in 1,112 households.<ref name="2006 Kerman Province">{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006): Kerman 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/08.xls|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920093605/http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/08.xls|format=Excel|archive-date=20 September 2011}}</ref> The following census in 2011 counted 4,034 people in 1,129 households.<ref name="2011 Kerman Province">{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011): Kerman 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/Kerman.xls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329231518/https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Kerman.xls|archive-date=29 March 2023|access-date=19 December 2022|format=Excel}}</ref> The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 4,517 people in 1,444 households.<ref name="2016 Kerman Province">{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): Kerman 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_08.xlsx|access-date=19 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020091047/https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_08.xlsx|format=Excel|archive-date=20 October 2020}}</ref>

==Geography== {{More citations needed section|date=June 2023}} Bezenjan is a mountainous city and one of the highest cities in Iran. It has a rich historical background in Baft County, Kerman province (the largest province of Iran). The distance to the city of [[Baft]] is 8km and 151km to the Kerman metropolis. The city is bounded on the north by [[Kiskan Rural District]], on the east by [[Rabor Rural District|Rabor]] and [[Javaran Rural District|Javaran]] Rural Districts, on the south and southwest by [[Dashtab Rural District]], and on the west by Dashtab and [[Fathabad Rural District (Baft County)|Fathabad]] Rural Districts.

==History== {{More citations needed section|date=June 2023}} It is possible that the city dates back to ancient times and early fifth century BC. Therefore, Bezenjan is one of the areas with an ancient history. The people of this city have the closest genetic closeness with the eastern Aryans of Iran and are of Aryan descent who entered these areas from the east. First, Amirkabir, Tehran, 1989, p. 248) (Geography of Kerman, p. 248) (Historical geography of Baft and Rabar, 1390, p. 63)

Development of Bezenjan started years ago, when Mohamad Naseri instituted the first school there.

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[[Category:Populated places in Baft County]]

[[Category:Cities in Kerman province]]