Amol
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Location map of Amol |
Amol is a city in northern
Iran, in the province of
Mazandaran.Amol is an old city, with it's age dating back to the
Amards. Amards were the people living in the area before
Aryans. Some believe that the city's name is rooted in the same Amard word. Amol has aroud 200 thousand population and is located on
Haraz river bank on 26°25′N 52°21′E. It is less than 20 km away south of
Caspian sea and less that 10 km away north of
Alborz mountains. It is 180 km through
Haraz road to cut through
Alborz and reach Amol from the Iranian capital,
Tehran and
Sari, the capital of
Mazandaran is only 70 km east of Amol.
Some of the historical and touristic attractions of the city are:
Emamzadeh Abdollah shrine,
Davaazdah Cheshmeh bridge,
Mashhad Mir Bozorg shrine,
Emamzadeh Ebrahim and
Emamzade Ghassem,
Mir Heydar Amoli mauseleum,
Malek Bahman castle and
Shahandasht waterfall in
Shahandasht,
Ab Ask and
Abgarm Larijan hot springs,
Lar tulip valley, and mount
Damavand, the highest point in the
Middle East.
Many of the Amoli people have their own
summer houses in the mountaneous southern part of the greater Amol:
Larijan. Some of the villages in Larijan include:
Ab Ask,
Abgarm,
Amiri,
Baijan,
Chelav,
Era,
Gazaneh,
Lasem,
Namarestagh,
Nava,
Niak,
Polour,
Rineh, and
Shahandasht. Ultra Quality Rice and Fresh Fruits are major products of Amol Farmers. There are also many big factories in Amol including the big dairy company
Kaleh,
Faravardeha-ye Gooshti-ye Amol meat products, and
Zarbal poultry producers.Amoli Poeple Speak
Mazandarani language.
The neighbouring cities are
Babol in the east,
Mahmoud Abad in the north,
Chamestan in the west in
Mazandaran province and
Tehran province in the south.
Amol had an estimated population of 202,518 in 2005.
[1]*
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari: Persian historian and
exegete *
Mohammad Javad Larijani: Iranian politician and scholar, current director of Iran's
Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics *
Ali Larijani: Iranian politician, current secretary of the Iranian
Supreme National Security Council* [
2] in the
Encyclopædia Iranica * [
3] Amol entry in
Britanica * [
4] Amol in
Wikimapia''Amol also means something "invaluable or priceless" in
Hindi &
Marathi Languages, used as adjective to describe the Characteristics of Quality. It is also used as musculine name with the same meaning as above in those languages.
