Tehrân

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English

Proper noun

Tehrân

  1. Alternative form of Tehran.
    • 1857, Robert B M Binning, “Sheerauz continued.—”, in A Journal of Two Years’ Travel in Persia, Ceylon, Etc. , volume I, London: Wm H Allen and Co., , →OCLC, page 315:
      Shortly after my arrival at Sheerauz, four regiments of infantry arrived from Tehrân; two of which are to remain here, while the other two proceed to Bushire.
    • 1990, Michael C Hillmann, “The Modernist Iranian Writer’s Almost Inevitable Nightmare”, in Iranian Culture: A Persianist View, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 108:
      In any case, it is certain that the action takes place in and near the cities of Tehrân and Rayy, the latter a place of great antiquity and historical importance and now an urban center just south of Tehrân.
    • 2002, Robert P. Pearson, Leon E. Clark, “The Islamic Backlash”, in Through Middle Eastern Eyes, 4th revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Center for International Training and Education, →ISBN, part 1 (Tradition and Change), page 142:
      In October of 1979, when the U.S. allowed the exiled Shah to come to New York for medical treatment, student supporters of the Ayatollah captured the American Embassy in Tehrân and took ninety hostages, sixty-three of them American.