Timeline of Hamadan

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Hamadan, Iran.

Prior to 20th century

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History of Iran

Prehistoric period

BCE / BC

CE / AD

Qajar Iran	1789–1925
Pahlavi Iran	1925–1979

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1920 - Population: 30,000-40,000 (approximate estimate).^[4]
1932 - Hamadan power plant [fa] built.^{[citation needed]}
1933 - City redesigned to accommodate motorcars; central Meidun-e Emam Khomeini and 6 radiating boulevards laid out.^[5]
1940 - Population: 103,874.^[6]
1952 - Avicenna Mausoleum erected.^[2]
1963 - Population: 114,610 (estimate).^[7]
1970 - Baba Taher Mausoleum [fa] erected.^[2]
1973 - Bu-Ali Sina University established.
1976 - Population: 164,785 city;^[6] 229,977 urban agglomeration.^[8]
1986 - Population: 272,499.^[6]
1996 - Population: 401,281.^[9]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Aḏkāʾi 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "(Hamadan)". ArchNet. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via MIT Libraries. (See also 2012 archived version)
^ Mousavi 2012.
^ "Persia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via HathiTrust.
^ Eshragh 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c Zanjani 2012.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Countries of the World: Iran". Statesman's Yearbook 2003. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-98096-5.
^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.
^ "معارفه سرپرست شهرداري همدان". Municipality.hamedan.ir (in Persian). Hamedan Municipality. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ Watson 1996.

This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

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A.V. Williams Jackson (1906), "(Hamadan)", Persia Past and Present: a Book of Travel and Research, New York: Macmillan, pp. 146–150
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Noelle Watson, ed. (1996), "Hamadan", International Dictionary of Historic Places, Fitzroy Dearborn, pp. 319+, ISBN 9781884964039 (Mostly about ancient Ecbatana)
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Farhad Khosrokhavar [in French] (1979). "Le Comité dans la révolution iranienne: le cas d'une ville moyenne, Hamadan". Peuples Méditerranéens (in French) (9): 85–100. ISSN 0399-1253 – via Internet Archive.
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