Choara (

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; from ''Khóara'', from

Old Iranian The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau. The Iranian language ...

''*huṷăra-'' or ''*xṷăra-'') was a town or village recorded by Greek authors, and was probably the center of the district Choarene. The "Choarene" mentioned by

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refers to this town, not the district. It was part of the region

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, until the rise of the

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who incorporated it to

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. The Hellenistic city of

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was also located in the Choarene district. This place-name is probably related to Khuwār (

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: خوار) mentioned by Muslim geographers, located in the Qumis region along the

Great Khorasan Road The (Great) Khurasan Road was the great trunk road connecting Mesopotamia to the Iranian Plateau and thence to Central Asia, China, and the Indus Valley. It is very well-documented in the Abbasid period, when it connected the core of the capital c ...

, and the modern district of Khāvar, with its center being Arādān.

References

External links

Livius.org: Choara
Former populated places in Iran Qumis (region) {{iran-hist-stub