Jirandeh ( fa, جيرنده, ''jirandeh'') (
Tati: , ''Jirindih'') is a city and capital of
Amarlu District
Amarlu District ( fa, بخش عمارلو) is a district (bakhsh) in Rudbar County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 7,970, in 2,350 families. The District has one city: Jirandeh. The District has two rural distric ...
, in
Rudbar County
Rudbar County ( fa, شهرستان رودبار) is in Gilan province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Rudbar. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 101,884 in 27,902 households. The following census in 2011 counted ...
,
Gilan 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 ...
.
It is located north of the
Shahrood river
Shahrood or Shah-Rud ( fa, شاهرود, Shāhrūd, literally meaning ''The great river'' or ''the river of the king''), also translated as ''Shah River'', is a river of northern Iran.
Course
The Shahrood originates on the slopes of the Takht-e ...
in the
Alborz (''Elburz'') mountain range.
At the 2006 census, its population was 2,616, in 754 families. Its residents are
Tat people and they speak the
Tati language.
[Guyeš-e Tāti-y-e Rudbār (The Tati Dialect of Rudbar), Jahandoost Sabzalipour, Rasht: Farhang-e Iliya Press, 2011]
Etymology
In the
Tati language, Jirindih means the lower village:
Jirindih = Jirin (Lower) + Dih (village, land)
Places near Jirandeh
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Ainahdih
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Dosalan
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Askabon
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Lavarbon
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Mianah kushk
Rivers
* Rudxan
Tribes
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Tats
References
* Book of Amarlu - M.M. Zand
Cities in Gilan Province
Populated places in Rudbar County
Settled areas of Elburz
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