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Road 77 (Iran)
Road 77, also known as the Haraz Road, is one of the most important roads from Tehran to the northern mountains of Iran, and the Iranian coast on the southern Caspian Sea. Amol is the first northern city of this road. Along the road landscapes, Plain, Mountain, Historical tourism. Waterfall and village. Route The road's route travels through Tehran Province and Mazandaran Province. It crosses the Alborz mountain range and then descends northwards down the Haraz River Valley. The road is the shortest route from Tehran to the north ( 180 km) and in recent years some parts of the road has been widened and the safety has been improved. It passes through the towns of Amol and Rudehen. Features Haraz Road is the nearest road to Mount Damavand, the highest peak in Iran and Middle East. Lar Dam, Lar National Park Lar National Park (Persian پارک ملی لار ''park-e melli-e lar'') is a protected area in Mazandaran Province in northern Iran. Geography The park is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East, after Cairo. It is ranked 24th in the world by metropolitan area population. In the Classical era, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages, a prominent Median city destroyed in the medieval Arab, Turkic, and Mongol invasions. Modern Ray is an urban area absorbed into the metropolitan area of Greater Tehran. Tehran was first chosen as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the Russo-Iranian Wars, to avoid the vying factions of the previously ruling Iranian dynasties. The capital has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babayi Expressway
Babayi Expressway is an expressway in northeastern Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul .... {{Expressways of Tehran Expressways in Tehran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roads In Iran
These are the list of routes in Iran. Tehran Province * Freeway 2 (Iran), Tehran-Qazvin Freeway * Tehran-Shomal Freeway (under construction) * Freeway 5 (Iran), Tehran-Saveh Freeway * Freeway 7 (Iran), Tehran-Qom Freeway * Road 65 (Iran), Tehran-Saveh Highway * Road 71 (Iran), Tehran-Qom Highway * Road 77 (Iran), Haraz Road (Amol-Tehran) * Road 79 (Iran), Sevad Kooh Road (Sari-Tehran) Mazandaran Province * Road 22 (Iran), Coastal Road of Caspian Sea * Road 59 (Iran), Chalus Road (Karaj-Chalus) * Road 77 (Iran), Haraz Road (Amol-Tehran) * Road 79 (Iran), Sevad Kooh Road (Sari-Tehran) * Road 81 (Iran), Sari Damghan Road Isfahan Province * Road 65 (Iran), Tehran-Isfahan Highway * Road 62 (Iran), Esfahan-KhorramAbad Esfahan-Yazd * Fars Province * Road 65 (Iran), Isfahan-Shiraz Highway * Road 86 (Iran), Shiraz-Kerman Shiraz-Ahvaz Razavi Khorasan Province * Road 22 (Iran), Road 22 Turkmenistan-Mashhad-Mazandaran * Road 36 (Iran), Road 36 Bardaskan-Taybad * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Journalists Club
The Young Journalists Club (YJC) is a news agency in Iran. It was established in 1999 by the political affairs bureau of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting and aims to help enthusiastic youth become professional journalists. The YCG is affiliated with Iran's official state broadcaster. See also *List of Iranian news agencies This is a list of notable news agencies in Iran: * KhabarOnline News Agency(Khabar online) * AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA) * Cultural Heritage News Agency (CNA) * Fars News Agency * Eslahatnews * Iranian Agriculture News Agency (IANA) * Iran B ... References External links * * * *(in Arabicyjc.ir/ar{{Iranian news agencies and websites 1999 establishments in Iran Organizations established in 1999 News agencies based in Iran Iranian news websites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road 59 (Iran)
Chalus Road ( fa, جاده چالوس) or Kandovan Road (), also known as the Road 59 is an important road for people of Tehran and Karaj, many of whom drive to popular tourist attractions in the north of Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ... on weekends and for holidays. This road is one of the busiest in Iran. There is a tunnel in this road that is called Kandovan. The Kandovan tunnel was built in four years from 1935 to 1939. References External links Chalus Road، Tishineh Roads in Iran {{Iran-transport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lar National Park
Lar National Park (Persian پارک ملی لار ''park-e melli-e lar'') is a protected area in Mazandaran Province in northern Iran. Geography The park is in the Central Alborz mountain range, at the foot of Mount Damavand. It has been a national park since 1976 and a protected area since 1982 by the Iran Department of Environment. Since 1991 hunting has been prohibited. The Lar Dam and reservoir is located within the park. It is a major tourist attraction, being only northeast of Tehran. The park is accessible by car via Haraz road (Road 77). Flora and fauna One of the rare species of the fish family Salmonidae is native to this area. Other notable flora and fauna of the park are: * Flora: liquorice, ''Cichorium'', ''Thymus vulgaris'', ''Heracleum persicum'', St John's wort, borage, shallot, galbanum and multiple species of fungus * Birds: grey partridge, cormorant, heron and eagle * Mammals: goat, leopard, gray wolf, bear, wild boar, jackal and fox * Herpetofauna: monit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lar Dam
Lar or LAR may refer to: Places ;India * Lar, Uttar Pradesh, a town in Deoria District * Lar (Jammu and Kashmir), a town * Lata (region), also known as Lar, former region of southern Gujarat ;Iran * Lar, Iran, a city in Fars Province * Lar, East Azerbaijan, a village * Lar, or Sar, East Azerbaijan, a village * Lar, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, a village * Lar, Markazi, a village * Lar, Zanjan, a village * Lar Rural District, a subdivision of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province Transport * LAR Romanian Airlines () * Laramie Regional Airport, Wyoming, US, IATA code * Latimer Road tube station, London, London Underground station code Other uses * Lares, ancient Roman gods * Lar gibbon (''Hylobates lar'') * Light Armored Reconnaissance The United States Marine Corps Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalions, or LAR Battalions, are fast and mobilized armored terrestrial reconnaissance units that conduct reconnaissance-in-force (RIF) ahead of the battalion landing teams or divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle East
The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (European part of Turkey), Egypt, Iran, the Levant (including Syria (region), Ash-Shām and Cyprus), Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), and the Socotra Governorate, Socotra Archipelago (a part of Yemen). The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East) beginning in the early 20th century. The term "Middle East" has led to some confusion over its changing definitions, and has been viewed by some to be discriminatory or too Eurocentrism, Eurocentric. The region includes the vast majority of the territories included in the closely associated definition of Western Asia (including Iran), but without the South Caucasus, and additionally includes all of Egypt (not just the Sina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Damavand
Mount Damavand ( fa, دماوند ) is a dormant stratovolcano, the highest peak in Iran and Western Asia and the highest volcano in Asia and the 2nd highest volcano in the Eastern Hemisphere (after Mount Kilimanjaro), at an elevation of . Damāvand has a special place in Persian mythology and folklore. It is in the middle of the Alborz range, adjacent to ''Varārū'', ''Sesang'', ''Gol-e Zard'', and ''Mīānrūd''. It is near the southern coast of the Caspian Sea, in Amol County, Mazandaran Province, northeast of the city of Tehran. Mount Damāvand is the 12th most prominent peak in the world and the second most prominent in Asia after Mount Everest. It is part of the Volcanic Seven Summits mountaineering challenge. Symbolism and mythology Damavand is a significant mountain in Persian mythology. It is the symbol of Iranian resistance against despotism and foreign rule in Persian poetry and literature. In Zoroastrian texts and mythology, the three-headed dragon Aži D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alborz
The Alborz ( fa, البرز) range, also spelled as Alburz, Elburz or Elborz, is a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from the border of Azerbaijan along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea and finally runs northeast and merges into the smaller Aladagh Mountains and borders in the northeast on the parallel mountain ridge Kopet Dag in the northern parts of Khorasan. All these mountains are part of the much larger Alpide belt. This mountain range is divided into the Western, Central, and Eastern Alborz Mountains. The Western Alborz Range (usually called the Talysh) runs south-southeastward almost along the western coast of the Caspian Sea. The Central Alborz (the Alborz Mountains in the strictest sense) runs from west to east along the entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea, while the Eastern Alborz Range runs in a northeasterly direction, toward the northern parts of the Khorasan region, southeast of the Caspian Sea. Mount Damavand, the highest m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau of Western Asia. It covers a surface area of (excluding the highly saline lagoon of Garabogazköl to its east) and a volume of . It has a salinity of approximately 1.2% (12 g/L), about a third of the salinity of average seawater. It is bounded by Kazakhstan to the northeast, Russia to the northwest, Azerbaijan to the southwest, Iran to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southeast. The sea stretches nearly from north to south, with an average width of . Its gross coverage is and the surface is about below sea level. Its main freshwater inflow, Europe's longest river, the Volga, enters at the shallow north end. Two deep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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