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Bīhūd, Iran

بیهود

Bīhūd is a town of 1,577 people in South Khorasan Province, Iran.

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Population1,577 GeoNames
Local nameبیهود
Elevation1,788 m 5,866 ft
Time zoneAsia/Tehran
Nearest airportBirjand Shahid Kaveh International Airport (XBJ) 105 km

About Bīhūd

Bihud (Persian: بيهود) is a village in, and the capital of, Pishkuh Rural District in the Central District of Qaen County, South Khorasan province, Iran.

From the Wikipedia article Bihud, South Khorasan (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.

History

Bihud is a historical village with more than 2500 years of antiquity. There is no authentic document suggesting the exact ancientness of the village, but with respect to the historical places, cemeteries and the recently discovered buried stuffs it can be concluded that its antiquity goes back to pre-Islam period. These evidence shows that the village had been habituated before Islam and its people had been Zoroastrian. There are some historical citadels in the area such as Khoad, Mohalle rezvan, Alishah Bozbishe, Sarcheshmeh Grimonj and Ghaleh Now.

From the History section of Bihud, South Khorasan on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting there and nearby towns

Birjand Shahid Kaveh International Airport (XBJ) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 105 km away.

  • Gerīmenj 14 km north, about 14 min by car
  • Deheshk 16 km north, about 16 min by car
  • Nīmbelūk 17 km northeast, about 17 min by car
  • Mazra‘eh-ye Esfīān 27 km northwest, about 27 min by car
  • Bosţāq 30 km west, about 30 min by car
  • Qā’en 30 km east, about 30 min by car
  • Zūl 30 km southeast, about 30 min by car
  • Sarāyān 33 km west, about 33 min by car
  • Shāhīk 32 km east, about 32 min by car
  • Ferdows 69 km northwest, about 1 h 15 min by car

Drive times are estimates from straight-line distance, not routes.

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