Geliyard () is a village in Kenar Rud Rural District of

Bala Taleqan District Bala Taleqan District () is in Taleqan County, Alborz province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Jovestan. History In 2010, Savojbolagh County was separated from Tehran province in the establishment of Alborz province. Taleqan Distri ...

Taleqan County Taleqan County () is in Alborz province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Taleqan. The area is known for its mild, sunny summers and cold winters. Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar is quoted as saying of Taleqan weather: ''Har che dar Tehran har ...

Alborz The Alborz ( ) 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 northeast and merge ...

province,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

Etymology

The word ''geliyard'' or ''giliyard'' derives from Gil, the name of an ancient ethnic people in the

Medes The Medes were an Iron Age Iranian peoples, Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media (region), Media between western Iran, western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, they occupied the m ...

united confederation, the ancestors of today's

Gilaks Gilaks ( Gilaki: گيلٚکؤن, ) are an Iranian peoples native to south of Caspian sea. They form one of the main ethnic groups residing in the northern parts of Iran. Gilak people, along with the closely related Mazandarani people, comprise ...

. The ''-ard'' also is the suffix of location, meaning "milieu" or "territory," deriving from the

Avestan Avestan ( ) is the liturgical language of Zoroastrianism. It belongs to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family and was First language, originally spoken during the Avestan period, Old ...

word ''ard'' meaning "land." Hence Geliyard means "the land of the Gil people."

Demographics

Population

At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 232 in 42 households, when it was in Bala Taleqan Rural District of the former Taleqan District in

Savojbolagh County Savojbolagh County () is in Alborz province, Alborz province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Hashtgerd. History The name Savojbolagh is derived from Turkish and means "cold springs." The 14th-century author Hamdallah Mustawfi described ...

Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...

province. In 2010, the county was separated from the province in the establishment of

province. The district was separated from the county in establishing

. The rural district was transferred to the new

and renamed

Jovestan Rural District Jovestan Rural District () is in Bala Taleqan District of Taleqan County, Alborz province, Iran. Its capital is the village of Jovestan. Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the rural district's population (as ...

. Geliyard was transferred to Kenar Rud Rural District created in the same district. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 172 people in 60 households.

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Populated places in Taleqan County {{Taleqan-geo-stub

Etymology

Demographics

Population

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