Sabalan years, so Mt. Savalan is one of the important sacred places in Zoroastrianism. Based on nomadic beliefs, when all the snow of Sabalan melts, the end of time will come. Sabalan is a large andesite stratovolcano in Meshgin Shahr (Khiav), in Iranian Azerbaijan in North West Iran. It is the second highest volcano after Mount Damavand. The volcano is quite old. Its first eruptions occurred in the Eocene and later in the Miocene. But the main volcanism happened in the Pliocene and the Pleistocene as some of its rocks have been dated to 5–1.4 million years. Some references state that
Sabalan, Safad tomb of Nabi Sabalan was sacred to the Druze, At the centre of the village stood a mosque. In the 1922 census of Palestine "Sabalan" had a population of 68; all Muslim, increasing in the 1931 census, to 94 Muslims, in 18 houses. By the 1945 statistics the population was 70 Muslims, with a total of 1,798 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, a total of 421 dunums were used for cereals; 144 dunums were irrigated or used for plantations, while a 14 dunams were built-up (urban) area. On October 30, 1948, during