 According to the village elders, one of whom died in 1991 at an age of over 100 years, the village was founded around 1900.Few years later, the government transferred the village to a prominent Feudal, Haji Safqoli-Xan Leysi (حاجی صفقلی خان لیثی), who built a castle on the hills overlooking the village.An iron-smith and a cleric soon moved in and made the village the official and business center for the county.