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Jeyhounabad is a city in Kermanshah Province
Kermanshah Province

Kermanshah Province is one of the 30 provinces of Iran of Iran. It is in the west of the country, bordering Iraq. Between 1979 and the 1990s, the province was known as Bakhtaran....
 , in the middle of the western part of Iran. It is 525 kilometers (324 miles) from Tehran
Tehran

Tehran is the capital and largest city of Iran, and the administrative center of Tehran Province. Tehran is a sprawling city at the foot of the Alborz mountain range with an immense network of highways unparalleled in Western Asia....
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The city lies in close proximity to Mount Bisotoun, known for its rock relief in which Darius the Great, the Achaemenian King, had the narrative of his exploits engraved around B.C. 500. At the turn of the 20th century, Jeyhounabad, which was a typical village
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
 of clay houses, had about one hundred inhabitants.






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Jeyhounabad is a city in Kermanshah Province
Kermanshah Province

Kermanshah Province is one of the 30 provinces of Iran of Iran. It is in the west of the country, bordering Iraq. Between 1979 and the 1990s, the province was known as Bakhtaran....
 , in the middle of the western part of Iran. It is 525 kilometers (324 miles) from Tehran
Tehran

Tehran is the capital and largest city of Iran, and the administrative center of Tehran Province. Tehran is a sprawling city at the foot of the Alborz mountain range with an immense network of highways unparalleled in Western Asia....
.

The city lies in close proximity to Mount Bisotoun, known for its rock relief in which Darius the Great, the Achaemenian King, had the narrative of his exploits engraved around B.C. 500. At the turn of the 20th century, Jeyhounabad, which was a typical village
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
 of clay houses, had about one hundred inhabitants. The main source of income was agriculture.

The religious leader and provincial chief justice Hajj Nematollah
Hajj Nematollah

Hajj Nematollah was born in Jeyhounabad, Persia and is considered one of the greatest leaders and mystics in Kurdish history and Ahl-e Haqq history....
 was born and died in Jeyhounabad.