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Siadehan or Siaden also known as Takestan is a city in and the capital of Takestan County, in Qazvin Province, Iran. Most of its 75,000 or so people are Tats and make their livings through agricultural activities, including the production of many different grapes, peaches, nectarines, hay, wheat and cucumbers. During the reign of reform oriented Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, the city's name, then Syadehen, was changed to Takestan, which means as much as "a place of vine-yards". The Pir mausoleum,...