Thursday, July 12, 2007

Hesarooyeh


Hesarooyeh is a Village 15 Km to the east of ShahrBabak in Kerman Province, Iran. Not much is written about the historical background of this village but recently, Mr. Azizi, Mansour, one of the best historical writers in ShahrBabak, has briefly written a paragraph about Hesarooyeh and it's People in his well researched book titled: The Histroy and The Culture of ShahrBabak (Tarikh va Farhang ShahrBabak).

According to Mr. Aziz's research, the name of this Village "Hesarooyeh" is a combination of two words: Hesar and Baru. HESAR meaning Fort, Fence, Wall, barrier and BARU meaning Fortification. It's been said, Mr. Azizi explains, that in old days, Hesarooyeh served as the stronghold of the Ismailies who were ruling Sharbabak at the time, about 150-200 years ago, if I am not mistaken. It's people are Ismaili and Hesarooyeh continues to be a place where its people are very kind, friendly and hospitable to everyone. If you are a Persian speaking fellow and would like to read more materials about Hesarooyeh and it's people in Farsi and see a lot of nice pictures on the subject, please visit Mr. Ismail Allahdini's blog at: http://www.hasaroiye.blogsky.com/

Mr. Allahdini, Ismail is a great friend and a great blogger who provides so much valuable and interesting information about Hesarooyeh and people's life style and activities. I would like to take the opportunity to thank Mr. Allahdini for all his efforts on providing information and lovely articles on different stuff about Hesarooye and it's people. So, On behalf of all Hesarooyeh people, I thank you so much and ask you to keep up the great work on your blog about Hesarooyeh, it's people, their activities, traditions and introduce it to many people around the world. Good luck Ismailjan. I ask the readers to help me to do a better job on this with any comments, criticism or suggestions. Please do not forget to read the attachments too, you can find them at the bottom of the page and then click on (Attachment). Thank you

Hesarooyeh is located close to one of Iran's most busiest national Highways that runs from basically North to South, from Tehran to Bandar Abass, passing through so many big and small cities and towns. Even though the High way has made it easier to access and travel to other towns and cities in Iran, it has also caused serious problems for those who have been living nearby it. The highway has caused economic problems by car accidents with herds during the night and sometimes even during the day. So many times a truck has killed a number of sheep belonging to one or more people; people whom their sheep is so valuable to them and in many cases is their only source of income. There used to be a lot more car accidents with sheep herds before, when the high way was new, but it seems the number of accidents is reduced now and that is not because the DRIVER are taking precautions because the SHEEP has learned to be more careful when crossing the high way......funny ha, but true though. Even though the number of accidents is decreased to some degree, they still occur once a while.

The highway also causes social and personal disasters by car accidents with people sometimes causing death and injuries to the people or their children who have to cross the high way to go about their daily activities. The high speed of cars, trucks and buses, lack of warning signs on the Freeway and a lack of paying more attention when crossing the road from the people is usually the cause of accident there. The other problems that the highway has caused include, environmental pollution by Trucks throwing their old and obsolete tires to the roadside destroying the bushes which are very essential for herds grazing on them, trucks changing their motor oil almost everywhere, noise pollution by too much traffic and sometimes and blowing their Trumpet and horns.

Unfortunately, there was not any consultation with the people when building the highway. People who have been living there for centuries. Suddenly a few engineers who had been sleeping and snoring all day or they have been drinking too much tea in the comfort of their offices come with a Jeep and start mapping the road and a few weeks later another group shows up with heavy machinery to build the highway. No consultation nothing with no one who lives near the road and will be affected by its structure. This approach is wrong and I hope there will be if not in depth consultation, some sort of asking the people how they could do it so the people are less affected.