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Places

Azerbaijan

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Aran, Aghjabadi Aran (known as Kuybishev until 1999) is a village and municipality in the Aghjabadi Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 1,655. History The village used to be named Kuybışev (English transliteration: Kuybishev) in honor of Valerian Kuy ...

Aran, Lerik Aran is a village and municipality in the Lerik Rayon of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located ...

* Aran, Shaki * Aran, Tovuz * Aran, Yevlakh

Iran

* Aran, Alborz, a village in Alborz Province *

Aran, Nain Arand ( fa, آرند, also Romanized as Ārand; also known as Aran) is a village in Kuhestan Rural District, in the Central District of Nain County, Isfahan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and als ...

, a village in Isfahan Province * Aran, Kermanshah, a village in Kermanshah Province * Aran, former name of the city of

Rezvanshahr, Isfahan Rezvanshahr ( fa, رضوانشهر, also Romanized as Reẕvānshahr) is a city in the Central District of Tiran and Karvan County, Isfahan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is ...

* Aran, former name of Bileh Savar in Ardabil Province

Russia

* Aran, Republic of Dagestan

Elsewhere

* Aran (river), in France *

Aran Islands The Aran Islands ( ; gle, Oileáin Árann, ) or The Arans (''na hÁrainneacha'' ) are a group of three islands at the mouth of Galway Bay, off the west coast of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, with a total area around . They constitute the histo ...

, a group of islands across the mouth of Galway Bay, Ireland *

Arranmore ''Árainn Mhór'' (English name: Arranmore) is an island off the west coast of County Donegal, Ireland. Arranmore is the largest inhabited island of County Donegal, with a population of 469 in 2016, but has had a gradually falling native popula ...

, also known as Aran Island, off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland *

Val d'Aran Aran (; ; ) (previously officially called in Occitan Val d'Aran, Catalan: ''Vall d'Aran'', Spanish: ''Valle de Arán'') is an administrative entity (formerly considered a comarca) in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, consisting of the Aran Valley, in ar ...

, a comarca of Catalonia consisting of the Aran Valley * Aran Island (disambiguation), several islands

People

Aran Bell Aran Bell (born October 7, 1998) is an American ballet dancer. He was featured in the 2011 documentary ''First Position'', and became a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre at age 21. Early life and training Bell was born on October ...

, American ballet dancer *

Aran Embleton Aran Embleton also called "Azza" by her teammates (born 7 October 1981) is an English footballer. She signed for North Shields Ladies in February 2011, having previously played in midfield or attack for Sunderland Women and Doncaster Belles. Ara ...

(born 1981), English female international footballer * Aran Fox (born 1988), English ice hockey goaltender *

Aran Hakutora , image= Aran 2008 Sep.jpg , birth_name = Alan Gabaraev , birth_date = , birth_place = Vladikavkaz, North Ossetian ASSR, RSFSR, USSR , height = , weight = , heya = Mihogaseki , rank = , record = 263-258 , debut = January 2007 , hig ...

(born 1984), Russian sumo wrestler * Aran Jones, chief executive of Cymuned, a Welsh pressure group * Aran Tharp (born 1977), New York filmmaker * Aran Zalewski (born 1991), Australian field hockey player *

François-Amilcar Aran François-Amilcar Aran (12 July 1817, in Bordeaux – 22 February 1861, in Paris) was a French physician. He studied medicine in Bordeaux and received his doctorate in Paris with a thesis on heart palpitations. In Paris he subsequently becam ...

(1817–1861), French physician * Aran Sahagun (born 1971), Retirement Plan Specialist

Fictional characters

Samus Aran is a fictional character and the playable protagonist of the video game series ''Metroid'' by Nintendo. She was created by Japanese video game designer Makoto Kano. She was introduced as a player character in the original 1986 video game ''Me ...

, the protagonist of Nintendo's ''Metroid'' video game series *

Aran Linvail ''Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn'' is a role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Interplay Entertainment. It is the sequel to ''Baldur's Gate'' (1998) and was released for Microsoft Windows in September 2000. Like ''Baldu ...

, in the role-playing game ''Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn'' *

Aran Ryan is a series of boxing video games created by Genyo Takeda and Makoto Wada, and published by Nintendo. The main protagonist and player character of the series is Little Mac, a short boxer from the Bronx who climbs the ranks of the fictional Wor ...

, in the Nintendo-produced ''Punch-Out!!'' game series

Other uses

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Haran Haran or Aran ( he, הָרָן ''Hārān'') is a man in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. He died in Ur of the Chaldees, was a son of Terah, and brother of Abraham. Through his son Lot, Haran was the ancestor of the Moabites and Ammonite ...

, brother of Abraham in the Bible *

Aran sweater The Aran jumper (Irish: ''Geansaí Árann'') is a style of jumper that takes its name from the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. A traditional Aran Jumper usually is off-white in colour, with cable patterns on the body and sleeves. Ori ...

, a sweater manufactured in Ireland * , a former vessel of the Swedish Navy * ''Aran'' (film), a 2006 film in the Tamil language * , ISO 15294 code for the

Nastaliq ''Nastaliq'' (; fa, , ), also romanized as ''Nastaʿlīq'', is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script in the Persian and Urdu languages, often used also for Ottoman Turkish poetry, rarely for Arabic. ''Nast ...

(Persian and Urdu) script