Alborz

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Alborz

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Alternative forms

• Alburz, Elburz, Elborz

Etymology

From Persian البرز (alborz); see that entry for more. Doublet of Elbrus.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Alborz

2. 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.

4. A province of Iran.

Related terms

• Elbrus

Translations

mountain range

Arabic: ألبرز Armenian: Էլբուրս (hy) (Ēlburs) Avestan: 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬁⸱𐬠𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬍 (harā.bərəzaitī) Azerbaijani: Əlburz Bengali: আলবোরজ (alborôz) Bulgarian: Алборз (Alborz) Chinese: Mandarin: 厄爾布爾士山脈 / 厄尔布尔士山脉 (È'ěrbù'ěrshì shānmai), 厄爾布爾士 / 厄尔布尔士 (È'ěrbù'ěrshì) French: Elbourz (fr) Hindi: अलबोर्ज़ m (alborz) Kazakh: Эльбурс (Élburs) Kyrgyz: Эльбурс (Elburs) Macedonian: Алборз (Alborz) Middle Persian: [script needed] (hlbwlc /⁠harborz⁠/) Mongolian: Альборз (Alʹborz) Ossetian: Эльбурс (Èlʹburs) Persian: البرز (fa) (alborz) Russian: Эльбурс (ru) (Elʹburs) Tajik: Албурз (Alburz) Turkish: Elburz Ukrainian: Ельбурс (Elʹburs) Uzbek: Elburs

See also

provinces of Iranedit

• Alborz
• Ardabil
• Bushehr
• Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari
• East Azerbaijan
• Fars
• Gilan
• Golestan
• Hamadan
• Hormozgan
• Ilam
• Isfahan
• 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

See also

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