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Encyclopedia > Poldasht

Poldasht (پلدشت) is a city in the Maku township in the West Azarbaijan province in north-western Iran. Poldasht is a Persian word meaning the Bridge's Prairie. Adjacent to the Poldasht city is the Aras River Dam and an Iranian border terminal. Maku is a city in the West Azarbaijan province of Iran. ... West Azarbaijan (in Persian, آذربایجان ØºØ±Ø¨ÛŒ Azarbāyejān-e-Qarbi; in Kurdish, Azerbaycanî Rojawa; in Azerbaijani, QÉ™rbi AzÉ™rbaycan) is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. ...


In the village of Dare Sham, in the Gechlart district of Poldasht there is the historical Church of Saint Stephanos which is visited annually by hundreds of Iranian and foreign tourists.


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Poldasht (93 words)
Poldasht (پلدشت) is a city in the Maku township in the West Azarbaijan province in north-western Iran.
Adjacent to the Poldasht city is the Aras River Dam and an Iranian border terminal.
In the village of Dare Sham, in the Gechlart district of Poldasht there is the historical Church of Saint Stephanos which is visited annually by hundreds of Iranian and foreign tourists.
Araks River at AllExperts (290 words)
Aras was chosen as the border limit between Persia and Russia in the Treaty of Golestan in 1813 by which the whole area north of that river was cut off from Iran and annexed to Russia.
Iran and the Soviet Union later built a joint dam on this river at Poldasht area.
The Hellenized form Araxes is found in the name of the Kura-Araxes culture, a prehistoric people which flourished in the valleys of the Kura and Aras.
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