Ashuradeh

Aschūradeh, also: Ashur - Adeh, (Persian آشوراده ) is an island in the Caspian Sea. It lies at the eastern end of the Miankaleh Peninsula, northeast of the capital, named after the golestanischen Gorgan Gorgan Bay, near the Iranian coast. It belongs to the district of Behshahr in the far east of the province Māzandarān. Aschūradeh was separated by a channel of the peninsula. It is the only island belonging to Iran in the Caspian Sea.

The island measures a total area of ​​800 hectares. It reaches a height of 26 meters above the Caspian Sea, which lies 28 meters below sea level. Only three kilometers away on the mainland is Bandar -e Torkaman, from where you can reach the island. The island is located in the center of the Persian caviar production.

History

About 300 families who used to live on the island. The settlements are devastated today and orphaned. Bandar -e- Torkaman took on about 500 former residents Aschuradehs because their homes were flooded due to the increased level of the Caspian Sea and had to be abandoned. 1837 Russian forces occupied the island, despite massive protests Persia. Although the Russian fleet had been arrested by Iran for support, as the region was offset by Turkmen pirates in uncertainty, but took the Army of Czarist Russia this opportunity to establish themselves for decades in the subsequent period by means of a military post on the island. On the one hand there were fears of having to fend off potential attacks by Iranian and Turkmen landowners, but in particular the own trade relations should be expanded. It was only on 26 February 1921, the island was binding returned to Iran.

The decade from 1940 to 1950 was marked by the fact that the waters between the island and the mainland was very shallow and over a sandbank a footpath was opened. This is due to that the coast of Torkaman has the lowest slope of the entire Iranian Caspian coast.

Trivia

The island's name has nothing to do with the Shiite Ashura festival.