Iranshahr is a city in and capital of Iranshahr County

Iranshahr County

Iranshahr County is a county in Sistan and Baluchestan Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Iranshahr. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 264,226, in 49,443 families; excluding those portions, the population was 211,807, in 39,549 families...

, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 99,496, in 17,698 families. The city is predominantly inhabited by ethnic Baloch

Baloch people

The Baloch or Baluch are an ethnic group that belong to the larger Iranian peoples. Baluch people mainly inhabit the Balochistan region and Sistan and Baluchestan Province in the southeast corner of the Iranian plateau in Western Asia....

 speaking the Balochi language

Balochi language

Balochi is a Northwestern Iranian language. It is the principal language of the Baloch of Balochistan, Pakistan, eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan. It is also spoken as a second language by some Brahui. It is designated as one of nine official languages of Pakistan.-Vowels:The Balochi vowel...

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Before 1935 the city was called Pahrah , also spelt Poora, Poorah, and Pura. The name was changed to Iranshahr by Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, Shah of Persia , ruled Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on 11 February 1979...

 in about 1937.

Pahrah is the site where Alexander the Great celebrated and regrouped his troops after his India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n conquests. The city used to be the center of the government of Balochistan

Balochistan (region)

Balochistan or Baluchistan is an arid, mountainous region in the Iranian plateau in Southwest Asia; it includes part of southeastern Iran, western Pakistan, and southwestern Afghanistan. The area is named after the numerous Baloch tribes, Iranian peoples who moved into the area from the west...

 and has been invaded and conquered numerous times during the course of its history. Bampur

Bampur

Bampur is a city in and capital of Bampur District, in Iranshahr County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 9,073, in 1,664 families....

, where the ancient Bampur fort is located, is nearby.