Alamut-e Sharqi District ( fa, بخش الموت شرقی), meaning "East Alamut District", formerly Rudbar-e Alamut 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 12,519, in 4,128 families. The District has one city: Moallem Kalayeh. The District has three rural districts (''dehestan''): Alamut-e Bala Rural District,

Alamut-e Pain Rural District Alamut-e Pain Rural District ( fa, دهستان الموت پائين) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in Rudbar-e Alamut District, Qazvin County, Qazvin Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also c ...

, and Moallem Kalayeh Rural District. The majority of people in the district are Tats who speak a dialect of the Tati language.A minority of Azerbaijani people also live in this part

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Districts of Qazvin Province Qazvin County {{QazvinCounty-geo-stub

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