Dāmghān (Persian: دامغان) is a city in Semnan Province, Iran, from Tehran on the high-road to Mashad, at an elevation of . It has grown from a population of 34,057 in 1986 to an estimated 59,300 in 2007. The city trades in pistachios and paper almonds (kaghazi), with very thin shells, which are (...) (from Wikipedia)