Chaleh Tarkhan (Persian: چاله طرخان), also Romanized as Chāleh Ţarkhān; also known as Chāl Ţarkhān and Chāh Ţarkhān, is a village in, and the capital of, Chaleh Tarkhan Rural District of Qaleh Now District of Ray County, Tehran province, Iran.
Chaleh Tarkhan Persian: چاله طرخان | |
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Village | |
  Chaleh Tarkhan | |
| Coordinates: 35°29′55″N 51°28′38″E / 35.49861°N 51.47722°E | |
| Country | Iran |
| Province | Tehran |
| County | Ray |
| District | Qaleh Now |
| Rural District | Chaleh Tarkhan |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 601 |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 658 in 172 households, when it was in Qaleh Now Rural District of Kahrizak District. The following census in 2011 counted 696 people in 195 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 601 people in 180 households, by which time the rural district had been separated from the district in the establishment of Qaleh Now District.
History
Stucco wall decorations, dating from the Sassanid Empire, are preserved at Chaleh Tarkhan. In the late 1930s, Erich Schmidt of the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Museum, in collaboration with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, led an expedition that excavated Chaleh Tarkhan.
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