Geliyard ( fa, گِليَرد, also
Romanize
Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and ...
d as Gelīyard) is a village in
Bala Taleqan Rural District
Bala Taleqan Rural District ( fa, دهستان بالاطالقان) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in the Central District of Taleqan County, Alborz province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also call ...
, in the
Central District of
Taleqan County
Taleqan County ( fa, شهرستان طالقان) is located in Alborz province, Iran. The capital of the county is Taleqan, formerly Shahrak. At the 2006 census, the county's population as a part of Savojbolagh County in Tehran province was 25, ...
,
Alborz Province
Alborz Province ( fa, استان البرز, ''Ostān-e Alborz'') is one of the 31 provinces of Iran.[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 232, in 42 families.
The village is the birthplace of
Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani.
Etymology
The word ''Geliyard'' or ''Giliyard'' derives from Gil, which is the name of an ancient ethnicity in
Medes
The Medes (Old Persian: ; Akkadian: , ; Ancient Greek: ; Latin: ) were an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, the ...
united confederation, and were the ancestors af today
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 ...
. The ''-ard'' also is the suffix of location which means milieu or territory, and derives from the
Avestan
Avestan (), or historically Zend, is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages: Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd millennium BCE) and Younger Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BCE). They are known only from their conjoined use as the scrip ...
word of ''Ard'' which means land. Hence Geliyard means land of Gil people.
References
Populated places in Taleqan County
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