Lavasanat District ( fa, بخش لواسانات) 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

Shemiranat County Shemiranat County ( fa, شهرستان شمیرانات) is located in Tehran province, Iran. The capital of the county is Shemiran, which is part of the city of Tehran. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 37,778, in 11,178 household ...

, Tehran Province,

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. At the 2006 census, its population was 22,289, in 6,615 families. The administrative center of the district is Lavasan. The District has two

rural district Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Ad ...

s (''dehestan''):

Lavasan-e Bozorg Rural District Lavasan-e Bozorg Rural District ( fa, دهستان لواسان بزرگ) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in Lavasanat District, Shemiranat County, Tehran Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also ...

and Lavasan-e Kuchak Rural District. During the Qajar era and early 20th century Lavasanat was the transit way between northern slopes of

Elburz 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 ...

and

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

with Great Lavasan (Lavasan Bozorg), Ammameh , Afjeh and Najarkala known as the most famous towns of Lavasanat. The natives of the Lavasanat district are of Caspian origin. The local dialect or "vernacular" spoken by its natives is a mix of

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and

Caspian Caspian can refer to: *The Caspian Sea *The Caspian Depression, surrounding the northern part of the Caspian Sea *The Caspians, the ancient people living near the Caspian Sea *Caspian languages, collection of languages and dialects of Caspian peopl ...

. In the village of

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(as well as Veskara), this vernacular approaches Mazandarani.

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* Shemiranat County Districts of Tehran Province {{Shemiranat-geo-stub