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Qum

British  
/ kʊm /

noun

  1. a variant of Qom

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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His words brought to mind a meeting I had in the holy Iranian city of Qum in 2009.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2022

There is discussion about turning the giant underground facility called Fordow — built under a mountain outside the holy city of Qum — into some kind of research and development facility.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2014

Iran, too, has taken preparatory actions, erecting new perimeter fences around its underground enrichment plant at Qum.

From Time • Feb. 28, 2013

Like his opponent, Khatami attended the seminary in Qum.

From Time Magazine Archive

The journey took about 20 hours passing through Dizful, Khorramabad, Arak and Qum and countless numbers of tunnels through the mountain ranges before reaching Teheran.��

From Coming of Age: 1939-1946 by Cox, John

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