Mount Takht-e Suleyman
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Takhte Soleyman or Takht-e Suleyman () is a mountain in the
Takht-e Suleyman Massif Takht-e Soleyman Massif () is a subrange of central Alborz mountains, in northern Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbai ...
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Alborz The Alborz ( ) range, also spelled as Alburz, Elburz or Elborz, is a mountain range in northern Iran that stretches from the border of Azerbaijan along the western and entire southern coast of the Caspian Sea and finally runs northeast and merge ...
mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have aris ...
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Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...
. In Persian language, Takhte Soleyman means Solomon's Throne (seat). In August 1931, the British explorer Freya Stark attempted to reach the summit of Takht-i-Suleiman, and documented her travels in 'The Valleys of the Assassins and other Persian Travels'.First published by John Murray (Publishers) Ltd 1936


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List of Iranian four-thousanders This list contains all of the summits and subsidiary tops of above sea level or higher in Iran. Since there is no precise or formal definition of a mountain summit, the number of 4000-metre summits or four-thousanders is arbitrary. Topographic ...


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{{reflist Takht-e Suleyman Mountains of Mazandaran province Mountaineering in Iran