Arangeh ( fa, ارنگه) is a village in
Adaran Rural District
Adaran Rural District ( fa, دهستان آدران) is in Asara District of Karaj County, Alborz province, Iran
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Asara District
Asara District ( fa, بخش آسارا) is in Karaj County, Alborz province, Iran
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Karaj County
Karaj County ( fa, شهرستان کرج) is located in Alborz province, Iran. The capital of the county is Karaj. At the 2006 census, at which time it was a county in Tehran province, its population (including those portions of the county later ...
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Alborz Province
Alborz Province ( fa, استان البرز, ''Ostān-e Alborz'') is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.[Iran
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. Arangeh is located in the
Alborz Mountain range
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 nort ...
north of
Karaj
Karaj ( fa, کرج, ) is the capital of Alborz Province, Iran, and effectively a satellite city of Tehran. Although the county hosts a population around 1.97 million, as recorded in the 2016 census, most of the county is rugged mountain. The urb ...
on the 18th Kilometers of
Chalus road. It includes five villages: Arangeh Bozorg (
Persian
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** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
:ارنگه بزرگ), Abahrak (
Persian
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** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
:ابهرک), Sijan (
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
:سیجان), Sar-Ziarat (
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
:سرزیارت), Jay (
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
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** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
:جی), Charan (
Persian
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** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
:چاران), Gurab/Jurab (
Persian
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:گوراب) and Khor (
Persian
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:خور). The whole area is called Arangeh and the central and primary village of this area at is Arangeh Bozorg.
At the 2006 census, its population was 136, in 46 families. At the 2011 census, its population was 302, in 100 families.
The village is notable for being the historical residence of the Iranian political dissident Ali Tehrani and
the Khazeni Family
The Khazeni family ( fa, خازنی), Khazeni-Rad and Khazenifar family were a prominent Iranian industrial and mercantile family, active in Iran from the Qajar dynasty.
Throughout the 20th century, the main activities of the family were the manu ...
, who were wealthy landowners during the
Qajar
Qajar Iran (), also referred to as Qajar Persia, the Qajar Empire, '. Sublime State of Persia, officially the Sublime State of Iran ( fa, دولت علیّه ایران ') and also known then as the Guarded Domains of Iran ( fa, ممالک م ...
dynasty.
References
Populated places in Karaj County
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