Maranak is a village near the city of
Damavand, Iran, located in
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 ...
. It is the site of an ancient
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
cemetery. The original name of this place (including diacritics) is Marānak. In 2004, the village was the location of a program to teach young Iranian students about the
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...
and other computer technologies.
United Nations Development Programme
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. (2004, August 12). ''First Rural IT Centre For Sustainable Human Development Opens in Maranak, Damavand.'' Retrieved January 18, 2008, from
References
External links
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مقاله ویکی پدیا درباره مرانک به زبان فارسی در
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the Persian version of maranak in Wikipedia Satellite Images of Maranak
Populated places in Damavand County
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