Shirgah

Shirgah (Persian: شيرگاه‎, also Romanized as Shīrgāh and Shīr Gāh) is a city in and capital of Shirgah District, in Savadkuh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 8,529, in 2,269 families.

Shirgah is one the four cities in Savadkuh County. It is adjoined by Zirab in the south, Ghaemshahr in the north and the Babol road in the west. It has 8,000 people, and 3,000 people in its villages.

The road connecting Tehran to Ghaemshahr passes through, as does the railway from Tehran to the north.

The job of most people in this area is farming and cultivating because it is surrounded by mountains every side except farm the north and has from lands. Its mountains called Terez in the west, Veresk in the east and Sarah sar and Shah kooh in the south.

Shirgah is the place of meeting of two rivers of Mazandaran, the Talar and Keselyan. The Talar originates from the slopes of Gadook.

That is, Shirgah has valleys and many bridges and because of this it is called the town of bridges. From these bridges, pool Dokhtar (in chali), a historical bridge of Shah Abbas, as its name implies, was made in the Safavid era (inside the town), and Abdangesar (it is on road to Ghaemshahr) and Poole Shahpoor, are the most famous of all.

Some other bridges have also been made, such as, on railway in Sartappeh, two in the town, on the way to Ghaemshahr and outside the town.

There are only three factories in this town. The wood industries one in Chali, Pichkooban in Sartappeh and wood saturating factory that has been established in 1932 AD (1311 Iranian date) and because of less use of wood bars in rail way its production has been limited. Of course a kind of this factory has been made in Ghazvin province that only isolated the wood. So that was the first saturating factory in Iran.

Read more about Shirgah:  The History of Shirgah, Kharkhoon' or Shirgah, khar Means Thorn and khoon Means Blood