Abadah

Abadah is a small town in Persia, on the eastern (winter) road from Shiraz to Isfahan. By the present-day highway it lies 280 km from Shiraz; a road branches eastwards through Abarkuh and reaches the town 100 km from Yazd. ¹

In 1952 Abadah was the northernmost district (shahristan) of the province (astan) of Fars. Its population worked mainly in agriculture and trade, and the district's products were opium, castor oil and sesame oil. Iklid, a small town that belongs to Abadah, is possibly named "Key [to Fars]". The whole district counted 223 villages and about 82,000 inhabitants. ¹

The town is mentioned chiefly in the fourteenth century. Several villages in Fars share its name, and the encyclopaedia warns that the town must be told apart from them, for example Abadah-yi Tashk in the Niriz district. The article's references include Le Strange and the Persian geography Farhang-i jughrafiya'i-yi Iran (1951). ¹