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Yasuj ((ペルシア語:ياسوج); also Romanized as Yāsūj, Yasooj, and Yesūj; Lurish: یاسووج or یاسیچ - Jasuc and Jasyç) is a city in and the capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 96,786, in 20,297 families. Yasuj is an industrial city in the Zagros Mountains of southwestern Iran. The term "Yasuj" is also used to refer to the entire region.〔Taylor & Francis Group (2003) "Iran" ''The Middle East and North Africa 2004'' Europa, London, p. 406, ISBN 978-1-85743-184-1〕 Yasuj has both a sugar processing plant〔Loeffler, Reinhold L. (1976) "Recent Economic Changes in Boir Ahmad: Regional Growth without Development" ''Iranian Studies'' 9(4): pp. 266-287, p. 269〕 and a coal-burning powerplant that generates electricity for the area. The people of Yasuj speak Lurish, one of the western Iranian languages. ==History== The area of Yasuj has been settled since as early as the Bronze Age. Findings include the Martyrs Hills (dating from 3rd millennium BC), the Khosravi Hill from the Achaemenian period, the ancient site of Gerd, the Pataveh bridge, and the Pay-e Chol cemetery. Yasuj is the place where Alexander III of Macedon and his Macedonian forces stormed the ''Persian Gates'' ("Darvazeh-ye Fars"), and fought themselves a way into the Persian heartland (331 BC).〔Henry Speck, "Alexander at the Persian Gates. A Study in Historiography and Topography" in: ''American Journal of Ancient History'' n.s. 1.1 (2002) 15-234; summarized at ("Persian Gates" )〕 The Yasuj Museum, which opened in 2002, displays coins, statues, pottery, and bronze vessels recovered from surrounding archaeological sites.〔("Museum And National Parks" Islamic Institute of New York ) accessed 18 August 2008〕 Yasuj was called Tal-e Khosrow (Khosrow Hill) in the last century. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yasuj」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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