Tabas

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Tabas
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CountryIran
ProvinceSouth Khorasan
CountyTabas
DistrictCentral
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Tabas (Template:Langx)[a] is a city in the Central District of Tabas County, South Khorasan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.[5]

History

Early history

The history of Tabas dates back to pre-Islamic times. It was an important outpost of the Sassanid empire.

Due to its strategic location at the edge of the Great Salt Desert, and at the confluence of many roads, the geographer al-Baladhuri called the city "the Gate of Khurasan".[6] In the early Islamic period it was known as Tabas al-Tamr (Template:Lit.) due to a large forest of date palms that grew there, and later as Tabas Gilaki after a famous governor of the city, Abu'l-Hasan ibn Muhammad Gilaki, who in the mid-11th century had pacified the region.[6] Along with the town of Tabas-e Masina further east, it gave its name to the local district, Tabasayn.[6] In the 10th–11th centuries, the town is described as well fortified, with several villages around. Medieval and geographers note that it was amply supplied with water due to underground wells; the town even featured hot baths, and extensive lemon and orange plantations.[6] In the late 11th century, it became part of the Nizari Ismaili state, and was besieged by the Seljuk Turks under Ahmad Sanjar in 1102 during the Nizari-Seljuk conflicts.[6]

Tabas was spared when the Mongols attacked Iran. It had a local government incorporating not only Tabas but also Tun (Ferdows) and Gonabad. After the death of Nader Shah in 1747, it as under the control of the Zangu'i Arabs as an independent state which included nearby Tun.[7][8] For a time they even kidnapped Nader Mirza Afshar and placed the Kurds of Khabushan in control of Mashhad.

Earthquake of 1978

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Operation Eagle Claw

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". The failed rescue American operation Operation Eagle Claw on 24–25 April 1980 to free American hostages in Tehran occurred near Tabas in Tabas Country about 127km southwest of Tabas town by the road to Yazd location (33.07020674739667;55.89196171977231).[9] In Iran, the operation is called amaliat tabas (Tabas operation), and the significance and aftermath of the failed operation made the city Tabas known in almost every corner of Iran.[10] The Tabas air defense system is accordingly named so.

Administrative changes

At first, Tabas County was part of Khorasan province. It became a part of Yazd province in 2004,[11] joining South Khorasan province in 2013.[12]

Demographics

Language

The people of Tabas speak a Khorasani accent of Persian that sounds somewhat different from the standard Iranian version ("Tehrani accent").[citation needed]

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 30,681 in 7,962 households, when it was in Yazd province.[13] The following census in 2011 counted 35,150 people in 9,903 households.[14] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 39,676 people in 11,876 households,[3] by which time the county had been separated from the province to join South Khorasan province.[12]

Geography

Location

Tabas is in central Iran, 950 kilometers southeast of Tehran, in South Khorasan Province.[citation needed]

It is a desert city with many date and citrus trees. It has a 300-year-old public garden (Bagh-e-Golshan).[15] There is also a shrine in Tabas that is visited every year by thousands of pilgrims. Tabas has two universities with 2,500 to 3,500 students.[16] The city has hot summers, and people rarely see a winter snowfall.

Climate

Tabas has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh). The record high temperature of 50.0 °C (122.0 °F) was recorded on July 25, 2025.[17] Script error: No such module "weather box".

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Economy

Agricultural products

The agricultural products of this desert city are very significant. Products such as: oranges, pistachios, dates, persimmons, summer fruits and daffodils; Also, tea bread, chickpea bread, and jams that are prepared from agricultural products, such as: spring orange jam, balang jam, orange peel jam, and Tabas mountain and local liqueurs.[22]

Mines

Tabas has some of the richest coal mines of Iran.[23]

The 2024 Tabas coal mine explosion in the Tabas Parvadeh 5 Mine claimed at least 51 lives.

Transportation

Multiple bus lines, a railroad station and an airport connect Tabas to Mashhad, Yazd, Tehran, Kerman and Birjand (the capital city of South Khorasan province).

Notable people

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Also romanized as Ṭabas; formerly known as Golshan[4]

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.OpenStreetMap contributors (12 November 2024). "Tabas, بخش مرکزی شهرستان طبس [Central District of Tabas County], Tabas County, South Khorasan Province, Iran" (Map). OpenStreetMap (in فارسی). Retrieved 12 November 2024.
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  3. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.سرشماري عمومي نفوس و مسكن 1395 : استان خراسان جنوبی [General Population and Housing Census 2016: South Khorasan Province]. Script error: No such module "Lang". [Statistical Centre of Iran] (in فارسی). Archived from the original (Excel) on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  4. ^ [[[:Template:GEOnet ufi search]] Tabas] at GEOnet Names Server
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Habibi, Hassan (12 September 1990) [Script error: No such module "Lang". (Approval date) 1369.6.21 (Iranian Jalali calendar)]. ‌تصویب سازمان و سلسله تابعیت عناصر و واحدهای تقسیمات کشوی استان خراسان به مرکزیت شهر مشهد [‌Approval of the organization and chain of citizenship of the elements and units of the divisions of Khorasan province, centered in Mashhad]. Script error: No such module "Lang". [Research Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran] (in فارسی). Script error: No such module "Lang". [Ministry of the Interior]. Script error: No such module "Lang". [Political Defense Commission of the Government Board]. Script error: No such module "Lang". [84902T125K]. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2026.
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  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Noelle-Karimi, Christine (2014). The Pearl in Its Midst: Herat and the Mapping of Khurasan (15th-19th Centuries). Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. ISBN 978-3-7001-7202-4.
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  10. ^ fa:عملیات طبس
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.قانون تقسیم استان خراسان به سه استان [‌Law on the division of Khorasan province into three provinces]. Script error: No such module "Lang". [Research Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran] (in فارسی). Script error: No such module "Lang". [Ministry of the Interior]. Script error: No such module "Lang". [Islamic Consultative Assembly]. 29 May 2004 [Script error: No such module "Lang". (Approval date) 1383/03/09 (Iranian Jalali calendar)]. Script error: No such module "Lang". [Newspaper: 17268]. Archived from the original on 24 June 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
  12. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rahimi, Mohammad Reza (13 January 2013) [Script error: No such module "Lang". (Approval date 24/10/1391) (Iranian Jalali calendar)]. تصویب نامه درخصوص انتزاع شهرستان طبس از استان یزد و الحاق آن به استان خراسان جنوبی [‌Approval letter regarding the abstraction of Tabas County from Yazd province and its annexation to South Khorasan province]. Script error: No such module "Lang". [Research Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran] (in فارسی). Script error: No such module "Lang". [Ministry of the Interior]. Script error: No such module "Lang". [Council of Ministers]. Script error: No such module "Lang". [Proposal No.] 19089/42/4/1. Archived from the original on 12 November 2025. Retrieved 11 April 2026.
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  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Islamic Azad University Tabas - | Admission | Tuition | University". www.unipage.net. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Masters, Jeff; Henson, Bob (12 August 2025). "July keeps the torrid pace going in one of Earth's hottest years on record". yaleclimateconnections.org/. New Haven: Yale School of the Environment. Retrieved 1 January 2026.
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