Vafs, Markazi Explained

Official Name:	Vafs
Native Name:	وفس
Settlement Type:	Village
Pushpin Map:	Iran
Mapsize:	150px
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Type1:	Province
Subdivision Name1:	Markazi
Subdivision Type2:	County
Subdivision Name2:	Komijan
Subdivision Type3:	Bakhsh
Subdivision Name3:	Central
Subdivision Type4:	Rural District
Subdivision Name4:	Esfandan
Population As Of:	2006
Population Total:	1,607
Population Density Km2:	auto
Timezone:	IRST
Utc Offset:	+3:30
Coordinates:	34.8486°N 49.3828°W

Vafs (fa|وفس; also known as Vabs and Waūs) is a village in Esfandan Rural District, in the Central District of Komijan County, Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,607, in 509 families. The inhabitants belong to the Tat ethnic group and they speak Tati language.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Komijan County. IRIB. 17 April 2009. fa. 3 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20140121143525/http://markazi.irib.ir/about-us/about-ostan-markazi/audio-descripcostan/785--. 21 January 2014. dead. dmy-all.
2. https://books.google.com/books/about/A_grammar_of_Vafsi_Tati.html?id=S23MngEACAAJ A Grammar of Vafsi-Tati, Donald Leonard Stilo, 1971 (Tat language, 450 pages)
3. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4310364?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents The Tati dialects in the Sociolinguistic Context of Northwestern Iran and Transcaucasia, Stilo, D. 1981: In: Iranian Studies 14.3/4, 137-187.
4. https://books.google.com/books/about/A_grammar_of_southern_Tati_dialects.html?id=mzGCAAAAIAAJ A Grammar of Southern Tati Dialects, Professor Ehsan Yarshater, 1969
5. http://sabzalipour.iaurasht.ac.ir/faculty/Files/111/Staff/Faculty/111_2015-11-22_04.23.07_cv%20sabzalipour%2094.pdf Farhang-e Tāti (Tati Dictionary), Jahandoost Sabzalipour, Rasht: Farhang-e Iliya Press. Second. Edition in 2013
6. https://archive.org/stream/HeningTati/2011_6_10-theAncientLanguageOfAzerbaijan_djvu.txt Tati, W. B. Henning.
7. Tats of Iran and Caucasus, Ali Abdoli, 2010.