Ahar

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Settlement.name: Ahar
Settlement.native_name_lang: fa
Settlement.settlement_type: City
Settlement.image_skyline: فیروزه قره داغ.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Sheikh Shahab tomb in the city of Ahar
Settlement.pushpin_map: Iran
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Iran
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: East Azerbaijan
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Ahar
Settlement.subdivision_type3: District
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Central
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.population_as_of: 2016
Settlement.population_total: 100641
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto

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Population: 100641
Image: Sheikh-shahab tomb 2.JPG
Dialing code: 0426

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Commons category: Ahar
male population: 50386
female population: 50255

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is a city in the Central District of Ahar County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Ahar was the capital of Karadag Khanate in 18th and 19th centuries.

==History== Ahar is one of the ancient cities of the Azerbaijan region, its name before Islam was "meimad". In the 12th-13th centuries, Ahar was a minor and short-lived, but prosperous emirate ruled by the Pishteginid dynasty of Georgian origin (1155—1231). Yaqut al-Hamawi, writing in early thirteenth century, describes Ahar as very flourishing despite its small extent.