Estir (Persian: استير)[a] is a village in Qasabeh-ye Gharbi Rural District of the Central District in Sabzevar County, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran.
Etymology
Estir was a Jewish village that had been named after Esther, the Jewish queen of the Persian king Xerxes I.[4]
Demographics
Population
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village’s population was 781 in 258 households.[5] The following census in 2011 counted 757 people in 252 households.[6] The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 632 people in 228 households.[2]
See also
Notes
References
- ^ OpenStreetMap contributors (23 March 2026). “Estir, دهستان قصبه غربی, بخش مرکزی شهرستان سبزوار [Qasabeh-ye Gharbi Rural District, Central District of Sabzevar County], Sabzevar County, Razavi Khorasan, Iran” (Map). OpenStreetMap (in Persian). Retrieved 23 March 2026.
- ^ a b سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1395 : استان خراسان رضوی [General Population and Housing Census 2016: Razavi Khorasan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ Estir at GEOnet Names Server
- ^ Vahooman, Haroon (2009–2010). Persian codex itineraries I. Tehran: Akhtaran Press. p. 650.
- ^ سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1385 : استان خراسان رضوی [General Population and Housing Census 2006: Razavi Khorasan Province]. مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in Persian). Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ^ سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1390 : استان خراسان رضوی [General Population and Housing Census 2011: Razavi Khorasan Province]. Iran Data Portal—Syracuse University (in Persian). مرکز آمار ایران [Statistical Centre of Iran]. Archived from the original (Excel) on 20 January 2023. Retrieved 19 December 2022.