Alamut

Alamut is a ruined mountain fortress located in the region in the South Caspian, near the village of Gazor Khan in in , approximately 200 km from .
Wikipedia
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Ninara, CC BY 2.0.
  • Tourist attraction
  • …lies at an elevation of 2,090 metres (6,857 feet)
  • Description: castle in Qazvin County, Iranian national heritage site and World heritage site
  • Also known as
    “Alamout”
    “Alamut Castle”
    “Citadel of Alamut”
    “Qal‘eh-ye Alamūt”
Alireza Javaheri, CC BY 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kalayeh and Madan.
is a village in Alamut-e Pain Rural District… is situated 5 km east of Alamut.
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Mahmudabad is a village in Alamut-e Bala Rural… is situated 6 km southwest of Alamut.

Alamut

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Latitude
36.44478° or 36° 26′ 41″ north
Longitude
50.58621° or 50° 35′ 10″ east
Open location code
8H8GCHVP+WF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 590499418
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
120399
Wiki­data ID
Q4706020

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Alamut” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ألموت”
  • Arabic: “قلعة ألموت”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ələmut qalası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ələmut”
  • Basque: “Alamut”
  • Bengali: “আলামুত দুর্গ”
  • Bulgarian: “Аламут”
  • Catalan: “fortalesa d’Alamut”
  • Catalan: “Fortalesa d’Alamut”
  • Central Kurdish: “قەڵای ئەلەموت”
  • Chinese: “阿剌模忒堡”
  • Croatian: “Dvorac Alamut”
  • Czech: “Alamút”
  • Dutch: “Alamoet”
  • Dutch: “Alamoetkasteel”
  • Dutch: “Kasteel Alamut”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قلعة آلموت”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قلعة الموت”
  • Finnish: “Alamut”
  • French: “Alamut”
  • Georgian: “ალამუთის ციხე”
  • German: “Alamut”
  • German: “Burg Alamut”
  • Greek: “Αλαμούτ”
  • Hebrew: “מצודת אלמות”
  • Hindi: “अलमौत किला”
  • Indonesian: “Alamut”
  • Indonesian: “Kastel Alamut”
  • Italian: “Alamūt”
  • Italian: “castello alamut”
  • Japanese: “アラムート城”
  • Japanese: “アラムート城砦”
  • Kirghiz: “Аламут”
  • Korean: “알라무트”
  • Kurdish: “Elemût”
  • Latvian: “Alamutas cietoksnis”
  • Lithuanian: “Alamutas”
  • Macedonian: “Аламут”
  • Malay: “Alamut”
  • Maltese: “Alamut”
  • Maltese: “Fortizza ta‘ Alamut”
  • Maltese: “Kastell ta‘ Alamut”
  • Maltese: “Kastell ta’ Alamut”
  • Mazanderani: “الموت قلعه”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alamut”
  • Norwegian: “Alamut”
  • Persian: “الموت”
  • Persian: “قلعه الموت”
  • Persian: “قَلعِۀ اَلَموت”
  • Polish: “Alamut”
  • Portuguese: “Alamut”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo de Alamut”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo de Alamute”
  • Portuguese: “Fortaleza de Alamut”
  • Portuguese: “Forte de Alamut”
  • Russian: “Аламут”
  • Saraiki: “قلعہ الموت”
  • Serbian: “Аламут”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alamutski zamak”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tvrđava Alamūt”
  • Slovenian: “Alamut”
  • South Azerbaijani: “الموت قالاسی”
  • Spanish: “Alamut”
  • Swedish: “Alamut”
  • Tajik: “Аламут”
  • Tamil: “அலமுத் கோட்டை”
  • Turkish: “Alamut Kalesi”
  • Turkish: “Elemût Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Аламут”
  • Urdu: “قلعہ الموت”
  • Uzbek: “Alamut”
  • Western Panjabi: “قلعہ الموت”

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