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{{Short description|City in Kurdistan province, Iran}}
{{for|the administrative division of Kurdistan province|Saqqez County}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}}
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'''Saqqez''' ({{langx|fa|سقز}}; {{IPAc-en|lang|s|æ|g|ɛ|z}} {{Respell|sa|ghez}}; {{IPA|fa|sæɣˈɣez}}){{efn|{{langx|ckb|سه‌قز}}, {{langx|ku|Seqiz}}, [[romanize]]d as '''Seqiz'''; also known as '''Saghez''', '''Sakīz''', '''Saqez''', '''Saqiz''', and '''Saqqiz'''<ref>{{GEOnet3|-3082379}}</ref>}} is a city in the [[Central District (Saqqez County)|Central District]] of [[Saqqez County]], [[Kurdistan province]], [[Iran]], serving as capital of both the county and the district.<ref name="Kurdistan Province Structure">{{cite report|title=Approval of the organization and chain of citizenship of the elements and units of the national divisions of Kurdistan province, centered in the city of Sanandaj|language=fa|website=rc.majlis.ir|via=Islamic Parliament Research Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran|url=https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/113045|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023230624/https://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/113045|publisher=Ministry of the Interior, Defense Political Commission of the Government Board|last=Habibi|first=Hassan|archive-date=23 October 2018|date=2 November 2017|orig-date=Approved 21 June 1369|id=Proposal 3233.1.5.53; Letter 907-93808; Notification 83352/T130K|access-date=22 January 2024}}</ref>

== Etymology ==
{{main|Sakez}}
The name Saqqez derives from the [[Scythian languages|Scythian]] word "''Eskit''" and then "''Sakez''". Before that, it was [[Izirtu]], the capital of [[Mannaeans]]. In some historical sources it has been mentioned that the name of the city is derived from the name of powerful Median ruler [[Cyaxares]] (reigned 625–585 BC), who turned the empire into a regional power, but other historians believe that the name of the city is derived from ''Sakez'' and is attributed to the [[Scythian]]s who settled in the city during the reign of Cyaxares.<ref>{{Cite web|title=شهرستان سقز|url=http://iausaghez.ac.ir/Public/WebSite_Menu_Content/DMC.aspx?MenuID=10205|url-status=dead|access-date=13 May 2021|website=Islamic Azad University - Saqqez Branch|language=fa|archive-date=2 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102135924/http://iausaghez.ac.ir/Public/WebSite_Menu_Content/DMC.aspx?MenuID=10205}}</ref>{{dubious|date=February 2022}}

== History ==

Saqqez's history goes back to the seventh millennium BC.<ref>{{Cite web|date=9 July 2021|title=Saqqez in Kurdestan Province, dates back to 7th millennium BCE|url=https://irandaily.ir/News/314610.html?catid=3&title=Saqqez-in-Kurdestan-Province--dates-back-to-7th-millennium-BCE|access-date=|website=Iran Daily|language=en-US|archive-date=7 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207135456/https://irandaily.ir/News/314610.html?catid=3&title=Saqqez-in-Kurdestan-Province--dates-back-to-7th-millennium-BCE|url-status=dead}}</ref> Based on historical ruins and Antiques which have been found in Saqqez, like the historical treasures of [[Ziwiye hoard]] in the [[Ziwiyeh Castle]], experts like [[Roman Ghirshman]] believe that the modern city of Saqqez is built on the site of the ancient capital of the [[Median kingdom]]. When the Assyrian king [[Sargon II]] (reigned 722 – 705 BC) attacked the Median kingdom, he forced them to flee to [[Ecbatana]] (modern day Hamadan) and made this city his capital. On the attack of Sargon II, the ruler of  Assyria, the [[Medes]] were defeated and their fortifications were destroyed. Thereafter, the [[Scythians]] tried to rebuild this city and they chose Saqqez, then named [[Sakez|Eskit]] as their capital. This city was repeatedly attacked by [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]] and [[Roman Empire|Romans]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ghirshman|first=Roman|title=Iran: from the earliest times to the Islamic conquest|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1961|isbn=0140202390|pages=Season 2|language=English}}</ref>

According to [[Vladimir Minorsky]], Saqqez is the site of the earlier medieval city of Barza.<ref name="Minorsky 1944">{{cite journal |author1=Minorsky, Vladimir |author1-link=Vladimir Minorsky |title=Roman and Byzantine Campaigns in Atropatene |journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |date=1944 |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=243–65 |doi=10.1017/S0041977X0007244X |jstor=609312 |s2cid=129323675 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/609312 |access-date=5 October 2022|url-access=subscription }}</ref>{{rp|251, 253}} According to [[Theophanes the Confessor]], who calls the city "Barzan" ({{langx|grc|βάρζαν}}), the [[Byzantine]] emperor [[Heraclius]] stayed at Barza for seven days in March 628 while on his way to [[Ganzak]].<ref name="Minorsky 1944"/>{{rp|250–1}} Barza was an important crossroads in the medieval period, where there was a fork in the road from [[Dinavar]] to [[Maragheh]] with one branch splitting off towards [[Urmia]].<ref name="Minorsky 1944"/>{{rp|251, 253}} In the early 9th century, Barza was the capital of a separate principality.<ref name="Minorsky 1944"/>{{rp|251}}

==Demographics==
===Language and ethnicity===
Most of the people in this city are [[Kurds]] who speak the [[Sorani|Sorani dialect]] of the [[Kurdish language]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Movahed |first1=Ali |last2=Mostafavi |first2=Soran |title=Explaining the pattern of spatial –physical expansion of Saqqez from sustainable urban perspective |journal=Urban Structure and Function Studies |date=March 2014 |volume=2 |issue=5 |pages=55–75 |url=https://shahr.journals.umz.ac.ir/article_895_330094daeceee8a7fe213dbddf09e9e4.pdf?lang=en}}</ref><ref name="iranatlas.net">{{Cite web |author-last1=Mohammadirad |author-first1=Masoud |display-authors=etal |title=Language distribution in Kordestan Province, Iran |url=http://iranatlas.net/index.html?module=module.language-distribution.kordestan#eyJ0IjoieCIsImkiOiIyYzg5NmZiZWU2ZmNiZTNmNWQ3ODZkNGNjNzFhNDQyOCIsInMiOjE2OTUwMzcxMzc5NDB9 |work=Atlas of the languages of Iran (ALI) |publisher=Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, [[Carleton University]] |author-last2=Anonby |author-first2=Erik}}</ref> David D'Beth Hillel (d. 1846) stated that the city was home to a small [[Jews|Jewish]] community with one [[synagogue]] dating from around 1827.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gerson-Kiwi|first=Edith|date=2008|title=Kurdistan|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kurdistan|access-date=13 May 2021|website=[[Jewish Virtual Library]]}}</ref>

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===Population===
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 131,349 in 31,336 households.<ref name="2006 Kurdistan Province">{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1385 (2006): Kurdistan Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=amar.org.ir|url=http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/12.xls|access-date=25 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920092008/http://www.amar.org.ir/DesktopModules/FTPManager/upload/upload2360/newjkh/newjkh/12.xls|format=Excel|archive-date=20 September 2011}}</ref> The following census in 2011 counted 139,738 people in 37,262 households.<ref name="2011 Kurdistan Province">{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1390 (2011): Kurdistan Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=irandataportal.syr.edu|via=Iran Data Portal, Syracuse University|url=https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Kurdistan.xls|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230119120701/https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/Kurdistan.xls|archive-date=19 January 2023|access-date=19 December 2022|format=Excel}}</ref> The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 165,258 people in 48,488 households.<ref name="2016 Kurdistan Province">{{cite report|title=Census of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1395 (2016): Kurdistan Province|language=fa|publisher=The Statistical Center of Iran|website=amar.org.ir|url=https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_12.xlsx|access-date=19 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508185635/https://www.amar.org.ir/Portals/0/census/1395/results/abadi/CN95_HouseholdPopulationVillage_12.xlsx|format=Excel|archive-date=8 May 2022}}</ref>

== Geography ==
=== Geology ===
The city of Saqqez is built on long plains and hills, which are crossed by the main tributaries of rivers such as [[Zarrineh River]] and [[Simineh River]]. The lowlands and heights inside the city and the view of [[Saqqez River]] that passes through the center of this city are its special features. Saqqez is located in mountainous and highlands between the irregular heights of [[Zagros Mountains]], and this special geomorphological feature has led to relatively cold climates and long winters and sometimes frost.<ref>[https://sustainearth.sbu.ac.ir/article_99008.html Dating of late Pleistocene and Holocene fluvial sediments Using OSL, Uranium series and 14 C methods in the Saqqez River] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211013225308/https://sustainearth.sbu.ac.ir/article_99008.html |date=13 October 2021 }}, Shahid beheshti University, 2020</ref><ref>[http://www.mapnall.com/en/Map-Saqqez_115842.html Saqqez], mapnall</ref>

=== Climate ===
At an [[altitude]] of 1,476 metres (4,842 feet), Saqqez has a [[Humid continental climate|Mediterranean continental climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification]] ''Dsa'') with hot, very dry summers and cold, snowy winters. Summers feature large [[diurnal temperature variation]] due to decreased air density at high altitude and low humidity. In 1969 Saqqez recorded a temperature of {{convert|&minus;36|C|F|0}}, the lowest ever recorded by an Iranian [[weather station]] until Kheirabad Zanjan recorded {{convert|&minus;36.4|C|F|1}} on January 29, 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.payvand.com/news/08/feb/1191.html|title=An extremely cold winter in Iran|access-date=9 April 2010|archive-date=12 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112192832/http://www.payvand.com/news/08/feb/1191.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.irimo.ir/english/monthly&annual/map/province/zanjan.asp |title=Archived |access-date=June 12, 2023 |url-status=unfit |website=www.irimo.ir |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615122930/http://www.irimo.ir/english/monthly%26annual/map/province/zanjan.asp |archive-date=2011-06-15}}</ref> Saqqez again reached &minus;36&nbsp;°C during the February 3–9 [[1972 Iran blizzard]].

Saqqez unofficially reached {{convert|&minus;45.8 |C|F|1}} in December 2006 and {{convert|&minus;42.3|C|F|1}} in January 2007, the lowest temperatures recorded in an Iranian city.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iranembassy.org.za/E/Media/Land.htm |title=Iran Lands info |access-date=2010-04-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305165131/http://www.iranembassy.org.za/E/Media/Land.htm |archive-date=2012-03-05 }}</ref><ref>http://www.irimo.ir {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140829023626/http://www.irimo.ir/ |date=29 August 2014 }}  Iranian Meteorological Organisation's "Century weather stats data bank"</ref> Rainfall is mild throughout the year, with late winter and early spring having the most precipitation, and the summers being practically rainless. Due to the [[foehn effect]], the rainfall is not as heavy as it is in the exposed sites of the [[Zagros]] to the west, such as in [[Sardasht, West Azerbaijan|Sardasht]], which lies on the same altitude but is more exposed to the westerly cold front systems.

{{Weather box
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| location = Saqqez, Iran (normals 1991-2020)
| metric first = yes
| single line = yes
| Jan record high C = 18.2
| Feb record high C = 20
| Mar record high C = 26.0
| Apr record high C = 30.4
| May record high C = 34.4
| Jun record high C = 39
| Jul record high C = 43
| Aug record high C = 42
| Sep record high C = 39
| Oct record high C = 32
| Nov record high C = 26
| Dec record high C = 22.2
| Jan high C = 3.6
| Feb high C = 6.0
| Mar high C = 11.8
| Apr high C = 17.5
| May high C = 23.0
| Jun high C = 29.9
| Jul high C = 33.9
| Aug high C = 34.1
| Sep high C = 29.3
| Oct high C = 21.9
| Nov high C = 12.7
| Dec high C = 6.5
| year high C = 19.2
|Jan mean C = -2.3
|Feb mean C = -0.2
|Mar mean C = 5.1
|Apr mean C = 10.4
|May mean C = 14.9
|Jun mean C = 20.4
|Jul mean C = 24.7
|Aug mean C = 24.3
|Sep mean C = 19.3
|Oct mean C = 13.0
|Nov mean C = 5.5
|Dec mean C = 0.2
| Jan low C = -7.7
| Feb low C = -6.1
| Mar low C = -1.6
| Apr low C = 3.0
| May low C = 5.5
| Jun low C = 8.4
| Jul low C = 13.2
| Aug low C = 12.9
| Sep low C = 8.2
| Oct low C = 4.2
| Nov low C = -0.7
| Dec low C = -5.1
| year low C = 2.9
| Jan record low C = &minus;33
| Feb record low C = &minus;36
| Mar record low C = &minus;27.6
| Apr record low C = &minus;9
| May record low C = &minus;5
| Jun record low C = &minus;0.6
| Jul record low C = 3.8
| Aug record low C = 4.8
| Sep record low C = &minus;0.4
| Oct record low C = &minus;7
| Nov record low C = &minus;24
| Dec record low C = &minus;32
| year record low C = 
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| Jan precipitation mm = 57.9
| Feb precipitation mm = 59.0
| Mar precipitation mm = 68.8
| Apr precipitation mm = 67.5
| May precipitation mm = 36.6
| Jun precipitation mm = 5.7
| Jul precipitation mm = 5.1
| Aug precipitation mm = 1.6
| Sep precipitation mm = 2.4
| Oct precipitation mm = 28.5
| Nov precipitation mm = 66.8
| Dec precipitation mm = 59.4
| Jan humidity = 76
| Feb humidity = 72
| Mar humidity = 64
| Apr humidity = 60
| May humidity = 56
| Jun humidity = 41
| Jul humidity = 34
| Aug humidity = 30
| Sep humidity = 32
| Oct humidity = 47
| Nov humidity = 66
| Dec humidity = 74
| Jan precipitation days = 8.3
| Feb precipitation days = 7.5
| Mar precipitation days = 8.7
| Apr precipitation days = 8.5
| May precipitation days = 5.9
| Jun precipitation days = 1.2
| Jul precipitation days = 1
| Aug precipitation days = 0.4
| Sep precipitation days = 0.5
| Oct precipitation days = 4.2
| Nov precipitation days = 6.7
| Dec precipitation days = 7
| unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm
| Jan snow days  =7.9
| Feb snow days  =7.4
| Mar snow days  =3.5
| Apr snow days  =0.5
| May snow days  =0.1
| Jun snow days  =0
| Jul snow days  =0
| Aug snow days  =0
| Sep snow days  =0
| Oct snow days  =0.1
| Nov snow days  =1.3
| Dec snow days  =4.3
| year snow days =
| Jan dew point C =-6.3
| Feb dew point C =-5.0
| Mar dew point C =-2.1
| Apr dew point C =1.9
| May dew point C =4.7
| Jun dew point C =4.8
| Jul dew point C =6.1
| Aug dew point C =4.3
| Sep dew point C =1.0
| Oct dew point C =0.4
| Nov dew point C =-1.2
| Dec dew point C =-4.4
| Jan sun = 121.5
| Feb sun = 142.2
| Mar sun = 177.4
| Apr sun = 213.1
| May sun = 287.1
| Jun sun = 345.1
| Jul sun = 357.4
| Aug sun = 344.3
| Sep sun = 311.1
| Oct sun = 254.3
| Nov sun = 174.1
| Dec sun = 123.4
| source 1 = [[NCEI|NOAA NCEI]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/2.2/data/0-data/Region-2-WMO-Normals-9120/Iran/CSV/Saqez_40727.csv |title=World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1991-2020: Saqez |access-date=28 June 2024 |website=ncei.noaa.gov |publisher=[[NOAA|National Oceanic and Atmosoheric Administration]] |no-pp=y |format=CSV |quote=WMO number: 40727}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/WMO/1981-2010/RA-II/Iran/WMO_Normals_Excel_IRAN_060719.xls |title=WMO Climate Normals for 1991-2020: Saqez |access-date=28 June 2024 |website=ncei.noaa.gov |publisher=[[NOAA]] |page=17 |format=XLS |quote=WMO number: 40727 |archive-date=20 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120051914/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/normals/WMO/1981-2010/RA-II/Iran/WMO_Normals_Excel_IRAN_060719.xls |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| date = November 2011
|source 2 =IRIMO (sun-extremes)[http://irimo.ir/english/monthly&annual/admin2.asp?CODE=121 Synoptic Stations Statistics]
}}

== Culture and art ==
The city of Saqqez has been a place of culture and art since ancient times. In this city, performing arts and culture has a special place, and artists have created valuable works in various fields of art such as theater, painting, sculpture, music, literature, poetry, and cinema. In this city, every year at the end of the autumn season, a theater festival called [[The International Kurdish Theater Festival|The Kurdish Theater Festival]] is held, in which theater groups from all over [[Kurdistan]] perform their works. Also, in Saqqez, famous musicians and singers, such as [[Rashid Fayznejad]] perform their music and songs in the Kurdish language. Also there are well-known poets in this city, such as Abdul Karim Sahib, Mullah Ghafoor Dabbaghi, [[Jila Hoseini|Jila Hosseini]], Rahim Loghmani, Malekoalkalam majdi and Sheikh Hassan Molanabad.<ref>[https://theater.ir/en/129753 Kurdish Theater Festival is an opportunity to pay attention to traditional cultures], Iran Theater, 2019</ref><ref>[http://kurdistanhumanrights.org/en/a-kurdish-artist-in-saqqez-summoned-by-the-iranian-ministry-of-intelligence/ A Kurdish Artist in Saqqez Summoned by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111002752/https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/en/a-kurdish-artist-in-saqqez-summoned-by-the-iranian-ministry-of-intelligence/ |date=11 November 2022 }}, Kurdistan Human Rights, 2019</ref>[[file:ZeviyehNecklaces.jpg|thumb|260px|right|An old golden necklace from the [[Ziwiye hoard]] kept in [[National Museum of Iran]]]]

==Transportation==
This city has an airport and a central bus terminal. [[Saqqez Airport]] officially started working after 18 years on 3 November 2023 in the presence of the President of Iran, [[Ebrahim Raisi]]. This airport covers several cities in the western part of Iran and a population of nearly one and a half million people, especially [[Baneh]] and [[Marivan]] free trade zones.<ref>[https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/490882/Raisi-inaugurates-major-projects-in-Kordestan-Province Raisi inaugurates major projects in Kordestan Province], Tehran Times, November 3, 2023</ref><ref>[https://www.aviationpros.com/airports/news/21231379/iran-opens-second-airport-in-kurdistan-province Iran Opens Second Airport in Kurdistan Province], Aviation Pros, 2021</ref><ref>[https://iranpress.com/content/237450/president-raisi-inaugurates-saqqez-airport President Raisi inaugurates Saqqez Airport ], IranPress, Nevamber 3, 2023</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Bazaar of Saqqez]]
* [[Domenareh Mosque]]
* [[Karaftu Cave]]
* [[Haj Saleh Hammam]]
* [[Mount Chlchama]]

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== Notes ==
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==References==
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==Sources==
* {{EI2|last=Bosworth|first=C.E.|authorlink=C.E. Bosworth|volume=8|title=Saḳḳiz|page=895|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/sakkiz-SIM_6511}}
* {{cite encyclopedia | title = Saqqez | last = Grami | first = Bahram | url = https://iranicaonline.org/articles/saqqez | editor-first =  | encyclopedia  = Encyclopaedia Iranica | pages = | location = | publisher = | year = 2015 | isbn = }}

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{{Saqqez County|state=collapsed}}

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