Shemiran
Shemiran
شمیران | |
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District of Tehran | |
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Tehran Province, Iran, but is actually located just north of the borders of Tehran County along Chamran Expressway and Sadr Expressway and it is the northernmost district of the city of Tehran
.
Shemiran lies in the slopes of
Tehran International Fair
are situated in Shemiran.
It is also where
Imam Zadeh Saleh is, and where the former home of Ruhollah Khomeini was located.[citation needed
]
Among the neighborhoods of Shemiran are:
.Name
The word Shemiran or Shemran derives from the
Shamiram who conquered the region .[tʃ] phoneme, i.e. [tʃ] was replaced by [ʃ]) consisted of two parts: "cham" (meaning "cold" in Avestan
; "zama" or "zem") + "ran" (meaning "slope"). In fact "shemran" means "the cold place" or "the cold slope".
It is common in the
Persian Literature
and common usage as "chamestan" or "chemestan".
Shemiran's native language
The language spoken from the center of
Mazandarani language.[2]
Climate
The annual temperature of Shemiran in Saadabad meteorological station according to the statistics of 20 years (1975-1995) is 12.9 degrees Celsius. The average rainfall of Shemiran from 1988 to 2007 was 435.8 mm. The highest recorded temperature from 1988 to 2007 was +39.8 degrees Celsius. The number of days with snowfall in Shemiran is 24 days per year.
Neighborhoods
- Darabad
- Ajoudanieh
- Aghdasieh
- Farmanieh
- Kamranieh
- Niavaran
- Jamaran
- Tajrish
- Darband
- Zafaraniyeh
- Mahmoodieh
- MiniCity
- Elahieh
- Gheytarieh
- Velenjak
- Darakeh
- Evin
- Gholhak
- Ekhtiarieh
- Ozgol
- darrous
- qoba
Education
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The Pietro Della Valle Italian School, an Italian international school, is in the Farmanieh district.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Shemiran can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "217984" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
- ^ "QAṢRĀN – Encyclopaedia Iranica". iranicaonline.org. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
- ^ "Contacts" (Archive). Pietro Della Valle Italian School. Retrieved on October 18, 2015. "“Pietro della Valle” Italian School of Tehran Farmanieh, Lavassani Ave. n. 47 – 19546 Tehran (Iran) "
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