Elburz Mountains
Americanplural noun
plural noun
Example Sentences
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In the Mazandaran province of northern Iran, where the Elburz Mountains careen toward the Caspian Sea, Asieh Amini grew up on a farm surrounded by kiwi and tangerine orchards.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
On the fifth day of searching, three peasants saw vultures swooping over a hidden ravine in the Elburz Mountains, only 42 miles from Teheran.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Who built your new mosque?" the headman of the village of Hesar Khorvan on the slopes of the Elburz Mountains is asked.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet in this fragile frame is a will tougher than the rock of the Elburz Mountains and more inflammable than the oil of Abadan.
From Time Magazine Archive
But as we mounted, higher and ever higher over the Elburz Mountains, we soon lost this English type of scenery.
From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith
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