Dayyer County

Deyr County (Persian: شهرستان دَیِّر‎) is a county in Bushehr Province in Iran. The capital is Bandar Deyr (Persian: بندر دَیِر‎). At the 2006 census, the county's population was 48,488, in 10,036 families. The county is subdivided into two districts: the Central District and Bord Khun District. The county has four cities: Bandar Deyr, Bord Khun (Persian: بُردِخون), Abdan (Persian: آبدان), and Bardestan (Persian: بَردِستان). Deyr county is one of the nine counties in Bushehr Province, Iran. It has an area of 4000 sqkm. Some historians believe that Deyr county was exclusively inhabited by Jews, but by years the Muslims settled in the county, plus a large proportion of Deyr county’s Jews converted to Islam during the Safavid dynasty. The...