Chaleh Tarkhan | |
Native Name: | Persian: چاله طرخان |
Native Name Lang: | fa |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Iran |
Coordinates Footnotes: | [1] |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Iran |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Tehran |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Ray |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Qaleh Now |
Subdivision Type4: | Rural District |
Subdivision Name4: | Chaleh Tarkhan |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Total: | 601 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | IRST |
Utc Offset: | +3:30 |
Chaleh Tarkhan (Persian: چاله طرخان) is a village in, and the capital of, Chaleh Tarkhan Rural District of Qaleh Now District of Ray County, Tehran province, Iran.[2]
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 658 in 172 households, when it was in Qaleh Now Rural District of Kahrizak District.[3] The following census in 2011 counted 696 people in 195 households.[4] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 601 people in 180 households,[5] by which time the rural district had been separated from the district in the establishment of Qaleh Now District, including the new Chaleh Tarkhan Rural District, to which Chaleh Tarkhan was transferred.[2]
Stucco wall decorations, dating from the Sassanid Empire, are preserved at Chaleh Tarkhan. In the late 1930s, Erich Schmidt of the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Museum, in collaboration with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, led an expedition that excavated Chaleh Tarkhan.[6] [7]