Pasveh (Persian: پسوه, also Romanized as Pasevh and Pasooh; also known as Qal‘eh Paswah and Qal‘eh-ye Pasveh)[1] is a village in Lahijan-e Sharqi Rural District, Lajan District, Piranshahr County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,977, in 515 families.[2] Pasveh has a strategic location controlling the "easy" pass between the Lahijan district, in the Lesser Zab headwaters, and the Lake Urmia basin.[3]^: 79

Pasveh پسوه
village
Pasveh
Coordinates: 36°47′53″N 45°19′48″E
Country	Iran
Province	West Azerbaijan
County	Piranshahr
Bakhsh	Lajan
Rural District	Lahijan-e Sharqi
Population  (2006)
• Total	2,977
Time zone	UTC+3:30 (IRST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+4:30 (IRDT)

According to Vladimir Minorsky, Pasveh represents the name and location of the ancient Parsua kingdom.[3]^: 79 He explained the difference in name by saying that r-deletion in consonant clusters is well-attested.[3]^: 79 Pasveh was a frontier outpost near the Parsua's southern border (their core territory was probably the fertile Solduz district further north).[3]^: 79

In the early 1200s, Yaqut al-Hamawi visited Pasveh and left a description in his works.[3]^: 79 A century later, Hamdallah Mustawfi included an entry for it (here spelled Basavā or Pasavā) in his Nuzhat al-Qulub.[4] He described it as a small town in the tuman of Maragheh whose surrounding agricultural district produced grain, grapes, and some other fruits; he said its tax value was assessed at 25,000 dinars.[4] Pasveh later features in the accounts of Kurdish tribal feuds in the Sharafnama.[3]^: 79 Much later, when Minorsky visited Pasveh in 1911, he described it as a "desolate" town with a "dilapidated" fort.[3]^: 79

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