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Siahkal

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Deylaman Gilan Panoramio Siahkal

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Siahkal () is a city in the Central District of Siahkal County, Gilan province province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. As of 2016, the city had a population of 19,924.

History

Siahkal was the scene of the 1971 Marxist Siahkal uprising.

The Jewish community

There used to be a sizeable Jewish community in Siahkal with synagogue(s) and neighborhoods. The written historical sources on this community are limited, and mostly lost to history limited, as the Gilan province was largely isolated, and mostly ignored in history, but they might have been present since antiquity given speaking the Judeo-Siahkali dialect, as opposed to other Jewish communities of Gilan and surrounding provinces.

Korangy (2025). 9783110604443, De Gruyter. . ISBN 9783110604443

The community married among themselves and had a long tradition that they were descendants of Davidic line. Some were descendants of Jews of Deylaman, who were ordered by Nadir Shah Afshar in the year 1746 to relocate to Mashhad.

Houman M. Sarshar (2025). 9781788319263, Bloomsbury Publishing. . ISBN 9781788319263

The community faced one or several pogroms and mass conversions in recent history based on their collective memory. Possibly, around 1880, there was a pogrom in Siyāhkal in which many Jews were killed, many were subjected to forceful conversion to Islam, and others left the city to live in Rasht (Netzer, Siyāhkal). In the following years, Many of the remaining members of this isolated community converted to Baháʼí Faith, Islam, or joined the Marxist movement. Others gradually left the town, commenced by events of the pogrom of 1880, the Marxist insurrection of 1921, the Soviet Occupation, and then as well as the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, which prompted immigration of the remaining practicing Jews to either Israel, Rasht, Tehran, or the United States;.A. Netzer, "Yehudim be-Gilān", : Yeẓirah ve-Toladot (1994), 215–32; idem, "Jews of Siyāhkal," in: Shofar (a monthly Jewish-Persian magazine), 274 (December 2003), 22ff.; 275 (January 2004), 22ffL. Rabino, Les provinces caspiennes de la Perse (1917)

Demographics

Language and ethnicity

Siahkal's population is Gilaks and the city's main language is Gilaki language.

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 15,274 in 4,343 households. The following census in 2011 counted 18,176 people in 5,645 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 19,924 people in 6,796 households.

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