Alborz

English

Alternative forms

• Alburz
• Elburz
• Elborz

Etymology

From Persian البرز (Alborz); see that entry for more.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Alborz

1. A mountain range in northern Iran stretching from the borders of Azerbaijan and Armenia in the northwest to the southern end of the Caspian Sea, and ending in the east at the borders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan.
   • 1980, A. B. Bosworth, A Historical Commentary on Arrian's History of Alexander: Commentary on books 4-5, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 122:

     and Hyrcania could then have been annexed and associated as a separate satrapy with the Elburz peoples, all under Autophradates.

2. A province of Iran

Related terms

• Elbrus

Translations

mountain range

• Avestan: 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬁⸱𐬠𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬍 (harā.bər^əzaⁱtī)
• Middle Persian: hlbwlc (Harborz)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Persian: البرز (Alborz)

See also

• (provinces of Iran) Alborz, Ardabil, Bushehr, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, East Azerbaijan, Isfahan, Fars, Gilan, Golestan, Hamadan, Hormozgan, Ilam, Kerman, Kermanshah, Khuzestan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Kurdistan, Lorestan, Markazi, Mazandaran, North Khorasan, Qazvin, Qom, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, Sistan and Baluchestan, South Khorasan, Tehran, West Azerbaijan, Yazd, Zanjan ^{(Category: en:Provinces of Iran)}

See also

• Alborz on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hara Berezaiti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia