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For the Iranian Frigate Alborz see: Iranian frigate Alborz
Iranian frigate Alborz

Iranian frigate Alborz , a United Kingdom-made VT Group Mark V class frigate , was commissioned in 1971 as part of a four-ship order.The ship was originally called Zal, named after Zal, mythical warrior of ancient Iran and an important character in the Shahnameh....
. For Alborz High School (in Persian:???????? ?????) see: Alborz High School
Alborz High School

Alborz High School , is a high school located in the heart of Tehran, Iran. It is named after the Alborz mountain range north of Tehran....
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Alborz ( Persian

Persian language

Mountain range

A mountain range is a chain of mountains bordered by highlands or separated from other mountains by mountain pass or valleys. Individual mountains within the same mountain range do not necessarily have the same geology, though they often do; they may be a mix of different orogeny, for example volcanoes, uplifted mountains or Fold mountains...
in northern Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
stretching from the borders of Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
in the northwest to the southern end of the Caspian (Mazandaran) Sea

Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the List of lakes by area or a full-fledged sea. It has a surface area of 371,000 square kilometers and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometers ....
, and ending in the east at the borders of Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan is a Turkic peoples country in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic ....
and Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....
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Alborz ( Persian

Persian language

Mountain range

Iran

Armenia

Caspian Sea

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan is a Turkic peoples country in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic ....
and Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....
. The largest mountain in the Middle East

Middle East

File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....
, Mount Damavand

Mount Damavand

Mount Damavand also known as Donbavand, is a dormant volcano and the highest peak in Iran with a special place in the Persian mythology and folklore....
, is located in the range.

The Alborz mountain range forms a barrier between the south Caspian and the Qazvin-Tehran plateau. It is only 60-130 km wide and consists of sedimentary series dating from Upper Devonian

Devonian

The Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era spanning from . It is named after Devon, England, where rocks from this period were first studied....
to Oligocene

Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Geologic Timescale and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present....
, prevalently Jurassic

Jurassic

The Jurassic is a geologic period that extends from about annum to Ma, that is, from the end of the Triassic to the beginning of the Cretaceous....
limestone over a granite core. Its higher elevations, in the Elburz Range forest steppe

Elburz Range forest steppe

The Elburz Range forest steppe ecoregion is an arid, mountainous 1000-kilometer arc south of the Caspian Sea, stretching across northern Iran from the Azerbaijan border to near the Turkmenistan border....
ecoregion, are arid with few trees, but its northern slopes, in the Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests

Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests

The Caspian and Hyrcanian Mixed Forests ecoregion is an area of lush lowland and montane forests covering about 55,000 square kilometers near the southern shores of the Caspian Sea....
ecoregion, are lush and forested.

Zoroastrians

Zoroastrianism

Zoroastrianism is the religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to the prophet Zoroaster, after whom the religion is named. The term Zoroastrianism is in general usage, essentially synonymous with Mazdaism, i.e., the worship of Ahura Mazda, exalted by Zoroaster as the supreme divine authority....
may identify the range with the dwelling place of the Peshyotan, and the Zoroastrian Ilm-e-Kshnoom

Ilm-e-Kshnoom

Ilm-e-Kshnoom is a school of Zoroastrianism philosophy, practiced by a very small minority of the Indian Zoroastrians , based on a mystic and esoteric, rather than literal, interpretation of religious texts....
sect identify Mount Davamand as the home of the Saheb-e-Dilan ('Masters of the Heart'). In his epic Shahnameh

Shahnameh

File:Ferdowsi tehran.jpg Shahnam?, or Shahnama , "The Great Book" , is an enormous poetic opus written by the Persian literature Ferdowsi around 1000 AD and is the national epic of Iran....
, the poet Ferdowsi

Ferdowsi

Hakim Abu'l-Qasim Firdawsi Tusi , more commonly transliterated as Ferdowsi , was a highly revered Persian people poet. He was the author of the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran as well as other Persian communities in other countries....
speaks of the mountains "as though they lay in India." This could reflect older usage, for numerous high peaks were given the name and some even reflect it to this day. For example, Mount Elbrus

Mount Elbrus

Mount Elbrus is a volcano located in the western Caucasus mountain range, in Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, near the border of Georgia , in the northern Iranian plateau....
in the Caucasus Mountains

Caucasus Mountains

The Caucasus Mountains is a Mountain range in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea sea in the Caucasus region.The Caucasus Mountains are made up of two separate mountain systems:...
, and Mount Elbariz (Albariz) in the Kirman area above the Straits of Hormuz. As recently as the 19th century, a peak in the northernmost range in the Hindu Kush

Hindu Kush

The Hindu Kush is a mountain range located in eastern and central Afghanistan, northwestern Pakistan and northeastern India.The origin of the name Hindu Kush is disputed, despite its coinage apparently dating back no further than c.1330....
system, just south of Balkh

Balkh

Balkh , also known as Bactra, was once a major world city but was destroyed entirely by the Mongols. Today it is a small town in the Balkh Province, northern Afghanistan, about 20 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital, Mazar-e Sharif, and some 74 km south of the Amu Darya, the Oxus River of antiquity, of which a tributary form...
, was recorded as Mount Elburz in British army maps. All these names reflect the same Iranian language compound, and share an identification as the legendary mountain Hara B?r?zaiti

Hara Berezaiti

Hara B?r?zaiti, literally meaning "High Watchpost", is the name given in the Avestan language to a legendary mountain around which the stars and planets revolve....
of the Avesta

Avesta

The Avesta is the primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the Avestan language....
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Also due to its great snowy winters there are several ski resorts, some consider that a few of these are among the best in the world. Some of most important ones are: Dizin

Dizin

Dizin is a ski resort situated to the north of Tehran in the Alborz mountain range & also the most important ski resort in Iran & The Middle East....
, Shemshak

Shemshak

file:Shemshak.jpgShemshak is a ski resort situated to the north-east of Tehran in the Alborz mountain range.Shemshak is the second largest ski area in Iran after Dizin and came into operation in 1958....
, Tochal

Tochal

Mount Tochal is a mountain in the Alborz range and adjacent to metropolitan Tehran, Iran. The mountain has a 12 km long ridgeline. The highest peak, also called Mount Tochal, is at an elevation of 3,964 m and at coordinates ....
, and Darbandsar.

Etymology

The name Elbrus is a sound metathesis derived from Alborz

Alborz

Alborz , also written as Alburz or Elburz, is a mountain range in northern Iran stretching from the borders of Armenia in the northwest to the southern end of the Caspian Sea, and ending in the east at the borders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan....
. The name Alborz is derived from that of Hara B?r?zaiti, a legendary mountain in the Avesta . Hara B?r?zaiti reflects Proto-Iranian *Hara B?zati *B?zati is the feminine form of the adjective *b?zant- "high", the ancestor of modern Persian boland and Barz/Berazandeh. Hara may be interpreted as "watch" or "guard", from an Indo-European root *ser- "protect". . In Middle Persian, Hara B?r?zaiti became Harborz, Modern Persian Alborz

Alborz

Cognate

Cognates in linguistics are words that have a common etymology origin.An example of cognates within the same language would be English shirt vs....
with Elbrus.

Mounts, summits, and attractions

Mount Damavand
Mount Damavand

Mount Damavand also known as Donbavand, is a dormant volcano and the highest peak in Iran with a special place in the Persian mythology and folklore....
Tochal
Tochal

Mount Tochal is a mountain in the Alborz range and adjacent to metropolitan Tehran, Iran. The mountain has a 12 km long ridgeline. The highest peak, also called Mount Tochal, is at an elevation of 3,964 m and at coordinates ....
mount and summit
Tangeh Savashi
Tangeh Savashi

Tangeh Savashi is a popular tourist attraction in Iran.Located 15 kilometers west of Firouzkouh, 9 kilometers north of the Firouzkouh-Damavand road in Tehran Province, it is a mountain pass narrow of the Alborz range....
, A popular attraction
Alam Kuh
Alam Kuh

Alam Kuh, also transliterated as Alam Kooh is a mountain in the Alborz mountains range in the north of Iran between Tehran and the Caspian sea, forming a peak of the Takht-e Suleyman Massif....
Alamut
Alamut

Alamut was once a mountain fortress located in the central Alborz south of the Caspian Sea close to Gazor Khan near Qazvin Province, about 100 km from present-day Tehran in Iran....
Dizin
Dizin

Dizin is a ski resort situated to the north of Tehran in the Alborz mountain range & also the most important ski resort in Iran & The Middle East....
List of mountains in Iran
List of mountains in Iran

This is a list of mountains in the country of Iran.Middle Alborz MountainsWest Alborz MountainsTakht-e Suleyman Massif Mountains...

Source

North, S.J.R., Guide to Biblical Iran, Rome 1956, p. 50

External links

Alborz Mountains, Photos from Iran, .