Iravani (lit. "from Iravan", aka,
Yerevan
Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Y ...
) is a common surname in
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 ...
,
[Babak Rezvani]
''Ethno-territorial conflict and coexistence in the caucasus, Central Asia and Fereydan''
Amsterdam University Press, 15 mrt. 2014 p 173 Azerbaijan
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and to a much lesser extent in the rest of the
Caucasus
The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have historically ...
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People
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Haji-Mollah Abbas Iravani, other name of Haji Mirza Aqasi, prime minister of Qajar Iran between 1835-1848
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Mehdi Vaez-Iravani
Mehdi Vaez-Iravani is an Iranian peoples, Iranian scientist, engineer and inventor involved in the invention of "Shear-force microscopy".
Mehdi Vaez-Iravani graduated with a PhD in Electrical engineering from University College London and became ...
, Iranian scientist
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Reza Iravani Mohammad Reza Iravani (in Persian: رضا ایروانی) is a professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He holds the L. Lau Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering in ...
, Iranian-Canadian professor
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Fazil Iravani
Muhammad ibn Muhammad Bagher Iravani () or Fazil Iravani ( az, Fazil İrəvani) was an ethnic Azerbaijani Islamic jurist, the second Sheikh ul-Islam of the Caucasus and an Ayatollah al-Uzma.
Early life and education
Fazil Iravani was born in Ye ...
, Second Sheikh ul-Islam of the Caucasus
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Mirza Kadym Irevani
Mirza Kadym Irevani ( az, Mirzə Qədim İrəvani, میرزا قدیم ایروانی) was an Azerbaijani ornamentalist artist and portraitist, who mostly created "typical Persian miniatures and lacquers", founder of Azerbaijani panel painting, wh ...
, Azerbaijani ornamentalist artist and portraitist, founder of Azerbaijani panel painting
See also
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Sardar Iravani
Sardār-e Īravānī was the title of Hossein Khan Sardar Qajar (1740–1830) and his brother Hasan Khan Qajar, the last governor of Erivan (Yerevan
Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest ci ...
, a title assumed by the last khan (governor) of the
Erivan Khanate
The Erivan Khanate ( fa, خانات ایروان, translit=Xānāt-e Iravān; hy, Երեւանի խանութիւն, translit=Yerevani xanut'iwn; az, ایروان خانلیغی, translit=İrəvan xanlığı), also known as Chokhur-e Sa'd, was ...
of Persia, which also became the eponymous namesake of the
Qajar
Qajar Iran (), also referred to as Qajar Persia, the Qajar Empire, '. Sublime State of Persia, officially the Sublime State of Iran ( fa, دولت علیّه ایران ') and also known then as the Guarded Domains of Iran ( fa, ممالک م ...
"Sardari Iravani" royal family branch.
References
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Persian-language surnames
Azerbaijani-language surnames
Yerevan