Jahrom

Jahrom (Persian: جهرم, also Romanized as Jahrūm) is a city in and the capital of Jahrom County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 103,023, in 25,946 families. Jahrom is located 190 kilometres (120 mi) southeast of Shiraz, the capital of Fars Province. The majority of people in Jahrom are Persians. Many tropical and sub-tropical plants are grown in Jahrom (i.e. palm date, citrus, wheat. Based on Ahmad Kasravi, the late Iranian historians and philologist, the name Jahrom can be analyzed to render a "warm-place". But a more satisfactory etymology interprets the name as a "green-place". Jahrom's history goes back some 5500 years when the Achaemenids established the Persian Empire. The biggest hand-made cave in the...