# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/xavier-de-planhol
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:53:09.861Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/xavier-de-planhol"
name: "Xavier de Planhol"
slug: "xavier-de-planhol"
description: "Xavier de Planhol was a professor of geography at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and a widely acknowledged authority on political geography. From 1958, when he began to publish monographs and articles during his first fieldwork in Azerbaijan, and later in the Alborz region of Iran, to his monumental and highly acclaimed, Les Nations du Prophète (1993) and Minorités en Islam (1997), he has maintained his deep interest in Persia and the Iranian civilization. He was also a contributor to Encyclopædia Iranica, submitting articles ranging from \"Abadan\" to \"Boundaries\", \"Cholera\", \"Darya?\", \"Earthquakes\", \"Famines\", and a series of forthcoming articles on \"Geography\". A bibliography of de Planhol's wide-ranging publications up to 1995 has been compiled and published by Professor Daniel Balland in Geographie Historique et Culturelle de l’Europe: Hommage au Professor Xavier de Planhol, by Jean-Robert Pitte (1995)."
tagline: "French geographer (1926-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Photographie_de_Xavier_de_Planhol.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-02-03"
deathDate: "2016-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             8.158108108108111
  historical:           6.340569333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump