Vanush ( fa, ونوش, 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 Vanūsh, Venoosh, and Venūsh) is a village in
Kalej Rural District
Kalej Rural District ( fa, دهستان كالج) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in the Central District of Nowshahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, ...
, in the
Central District of
Nowshahr County
Nowshahr County ( fa, شهرستان نوشهر) is in Mazandaran province, Iran. The capital of the county is the city of Nowshahr
Nowshahr ( fa, نوشهر; also Romanized as Now Shahr, Noshahr, and Nau Shahr; also known as Bandar-e Nosh ...
,
Mazandaran 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 2,483, in 679 families.
Mamraz Lake, the "Lake of Ghosts"
Vanush has the distinction of being the settlement closest to the
Lake of Ghosts, a site of natural beauty featuring an eerie, drowned landscape of half-submerged
hornbeam
Hornbeams are hardwood trees in the flowering plant genus ''Carpinus'' in the birch family Betulaceae. The 30–40 species occur across much of the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Origin of names
The common English name ''hornbeam' ...
trees resembling phantoms in the mist.
[Digest, Persia (2017-08-24). https://persiadigest.com/en/news/146/the-ghost-lake-in-northern-iran "The ghost lake in northern Iran". en. Retrieved 2020-02-14.]
References
Populated places in Nowshahr County
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