several notable scholars from Asadabad. At some point after this, however, Asadabad shrank to the size of a large village. In 1877, the European traveler H.W. Bellew counted 200 houses in Asadabad, and noted the presence of a Jewish community in the town. It has been suggested that the 19th-century Islamic activist Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, who said that he was from Asadabad in Afghanistan, was actually from an Iranian Shi'i family from this Asadabad, near Hamadan. Language In 1951, Asadabad was home to some 7,000 people, most of whom spoke Persian, with a minority of Kurdish and Turkish speakers also present. In 2000, linguist Fattah stated that the town had a Kurdish majority with a significant Persian and Turkic minority. In 2020, the language distribution was as following: References Populated places in Asadabad County Cities in Hamadan Province Kurdish settlements in Iran