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"Times New Roman"">controlled this area and the name was changed to
Nâseri.
Afterwards, during the
Pahlavi period, it resumed its old name, Ahvaz. The
government of the Khūzestān
Province was transferred there from Shûshtar in 1926. The trans-Iranian railroad reached Ahvaz in 1929
and by the
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