Paweh
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Paveh /
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Paveh (Kurdish: Pawe, Persian: پاوه, also Romanized as Pāveh, Pawah, and Pāweh) is a city in and the capital of Paveh County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. The city has a population of 23,704 people.
An old myth regarding the name of the city is that the Emperor Yazdgerd III sent his son named Pav to this area to renew his religious Zoroastrian faith. Both Persians and the local Kurdish inhabitants practiced Zoroastrianism during the Persian Empire's Sasanian era from which this myth is derived.
An old myth regarding the name of the city is that the Emperor Yazdgerd III sent his son named Pav to this area to renew his religious Zoroastrian faith. Both Persians and the local Kurdish inhabitants practiced Zoroastrianism during the Persian Empire's Sasanian era from which this myth is derived.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paweh
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Coordinates: 35°2'3"N 46°21'43"E
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