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Abadan (other)
Abadan is a city in southwestern Iran on the Persian Gulf. Abadan may also refer to: *Abadan-Ayatollah Jami International Airport, airport of the city of Abadan, Iran *Abadan County, an administrative subdivision in Khuzestan Province of Iran *Abadan Crisis (between 1951 and 1954), a crisis that occurred after Iran nationalized oil refineries **Abadan Crisis timeline *Abadan Refinery, an oil refinery in Iran, built in 1912 *Abadan Island *Abadan, Isfahan, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran *Abadan, Markazi, a village in Markazi Province, Iran *Abadan-e Hoseyni, a village in Kerman Province, Iran *Abadan, Sistan and Baluchestan, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran *Abadan, Turkmenistan, a city in southern Turkmenistan *Abadan, Çubuk, a village in the district of Çubuk, Ankara Province, Turkey *''Abadan (film)'', a 2003 drama film by Iranian filmmaker Mani Haghighi *MT Abadan, MT ''Abadan'', a coastal tanker built in 1945 and scrapped in 1969 *Abadan, Jalandhar, a vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abadan
Abadan ( fa, آبادان ''Ābādān'', ) is a city and capital of Abadan County, Khuzestan Province, which is located in the southwest of Iran. It lies on Abadan Island ( long, 3–19 km or 2–12 miles wide). The island is bounded in the west by the Arvand waterway and to the east by the Bahmanshir outlet of the Karun River (the Arvand Rood), from the Persian Gulf, near the Iran–Iraq border. Abadan is 140 km from the provincial capital city of Ahvaz. Etymology The earliest mention of the island of Abadan, if not the port itself, is found in works of the geographer Marcian, who renders the name "Apphadana". Earlier, the classical geographer Ptolemy notes "Apphana" as an island off the mouth of the Tigris (which is where the modern Island of Abadan is located). An etymology for this name is presented by B. Farahvashi to be derived from the Persian word "ab" (water) and the root "pā" (guard, watch) thus "coastguard station"). In Islamic times, a pseudo-e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
