Alamut-e Gharbi District ( fa, بخش الموت غربی, meaning "Western Alamut District"), formerly Rudbar-e Shahrestan District, is a district (
bakhsh
A ( fa, بخش, also romanized as ) is a third-level administrative division of Iran. While sometimes translated as "county," it is more accurately translated as "district," similar to a township in the United States or a district of En ...
) in
Qazvin County
Qazvin County ( fa, شهرستان قزوین) is located in Qazvin province, Iran. The capital of the county is Qazvin. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 530,961, in 142,781 households. Retrieved 10 November 2022 At the 2016 censu ...
,
Qazvin Province,
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 ...
. At the 2006 census, its population was 16,255, in 4,667 families. The District has one city:
Razmian
Razmian ( fa, رازميان, also Romanized as Rāzmīān) is a city and the capital of; Alamut-e Gharbi District, in Qazvin County, Qazvin Province, Iran. At the 2006 census its population was 965, in 284 families. People of Razmian are Tat ...
. The District has three
rural district
Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Ad ...
s (''dehestan''):
Rudbar-e Mohammad-e Zamani Rural District
Rudbar-e Mohammad-e Zamani Rural District ( fa, دهستان رودبارمحمدزماني) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in Alamut-e Gharbi District, Qazvin County, Qazvin Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic ...
,
Rudbar-e Shahrestan Rural District
Rudbar-e Shahrestan Rural District ( fa, دهستان رودبارشهرستان) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in Alamut-e Gharbi District, Qazvin County, Qazvin Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, ...
, and
Dastjerd Rural District. According to some sources, the majority of people in northern Qazvin (Alamut) are
Tats who speak a dialect of the
Tati language.
[گونههای زبانی تاتی، دونالد استیلو، ۱۹۸۱] However, other sources claim that the majority of people in Alamut are
Mazanderani or
Gilaks
Gilaks (Gileki: گیلک) are an Iranian ethnic group native to the south of Caspian sea. They form one of the main ethnic groups residing in the northern parts of Iran. Gilak people, along with the closely related Mazandarani people, comprise ...
who speak a dialect of the
Mazanderani language
Mazandarani (), or Tabari (), is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch spoken by the Mazandarani people. , there were over 5,320,000 native speakers. As a member of the Northwestern branch (the northern branch of Western Iranian), etymo ...
or
Gilaki language
The Gilaki language ( ) is an Iranian language of the Northwestern branch, spoken in Iran's Gilan Province. Gilaki is closely related to Mazandarani and the two languages have similar vocabularies. Though the Persian language has influence ...
.
According to some linguists, the term ‘Tati’ was used by Turkic speakers to refer to non-turkic speakers. This could explain why some sources claim the people of Alamut are Tats, while others claim they are Mazanderanies or Gilaks. Likely, the ‘Tats’ of Alamut are
Mazanderani or
Gilak speakers who have been labeled as Tats as historically they were considered Mazanderani or Gilaks.
[ألکامل، ابن اثیر]
References
The population of the western boundary of 21 thousand Alamut
{{coord missing, Qazvin Province
Districts of Qazvin Province
Qazvin County