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Alternate Names of Places in Iran

  This list is very useful  for mapping of  old specimens, collected from Iran during 1700-1985

  • Alwand (mountain, western Iran) : ancient Greek Orontes
  • Babol (city, northern Iran) : to 1930 BIrfurush
  • Babol Sar (town, northern Iran) : to 1930s Meshed-e Sar
  • Aq Qaleh (town, northeastern Iran) : to 1980 Pahlavi Dezh
  • Arak (city, west central Iran) : to mid–1930s Sultanabad
  • Bandar-e Abbas (city, southern Iran) : to 1622 English Gombroon
  • Bandar-e Anzali (city, northwestern Iran) : to 1980 Bandar-e Pahlavi
  • Behshahr (town, northern Iran) : to mid–1930s Ashraf
  • Bushehr (city, southwestern Iran) : alternate Bandar-e B¨shehr; conventional Bushir
  • Esfahan (city, west central Iran) : traditional Isfahan, alternate traditional Ispahan; Roman Aspadana
  • Fars (province, southwestern Iran) : Roman Persis (FIrs is more or less identical with the ancient province of Pars, the nucleus of the Persian empire.
  • Ferdows (town, northeastern Iran) : to 1920s Tun
  • Gha’em Shahr (city, northern Iran) : to 1980 Shahi
  • Gorgan (city, northern Iran) : to 1930s Asterabad (The modern name is also that of the former province here known to the Romans as Hyrcania.)
  • Hamadan (city, western Iran) : ancient Greek Ecbatana
  • Iran (islamic republic, southwestern Asia) : to 1935 Persia
  • Kermanshah (city, western Iran) : formerly (and now also alternate) Bakhtaran
  • Mahabad (town, northwestern Iran) : to 1930s Saujbulagh
  • Orumiyeh (city, northwestern Iran) : alternate dated Urmia; 1930s-1979 RezI’nyeh (The same names apply to the lake near which the city stands.)
  • Salmas (town, northwestern Iran) : 1930–1980 Shahpur
  • Susa (ancient city, southwestern Iran) : biblical Shushan
  • Tehran (city, northern Iran) : alternate Teheran
  • Tonekabon (town, northern Iran) : to 1980 Shahsavar

  Reference consulted : Alternate Names of Places: A Worldwide Dictionary By Adrian Room 2010