Images Of  Hamedan Area ...................19,445 square Kilometers  Population ........ 1,756,362 census 1370     Capital .................... Hamedan Elevation ................. 1,850 meter  Population .............. 374,541 census 1370      Hamedan is situated 400 km south-west of Tehran, where the ancient city of Ecbatan use to stand.  Ecbatan was the Medes capital before they formed a union with the Persians.  Some of the archeologists estimate that the first signs of civilization in this area to go back as far as 3000 B.C. Many of the people in this region of are Jewish faith.

   

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