Hamadan definitions

hăm'ə-dăn', -dän'
A city of western Iran west-southwest of Tehran. An ancient city, it was captured by Alexander the Great in 330 bc and later ruled by Seleucid kings, Romans, Byzantines, and Arabs (after c. ad 645).
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City in W Iran: noted for carpets and rugs made there.
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A city in western Iran.
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Alternative form of Hamadan.
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Origin of hamadan

From Persian همدان (Hamadân), from Middle Persian (Ahmadān), from Old Persian (Hagmatāna-).

Sentence Examples

  • His bouts of pleasure gradually weakened his constitution; a severe colic, which seized him on the march of the army against Hamadan, was checked by remedies so violent that Avicenna could scarcely stand.

  • On a similar occasion the disease returned; with difficulty he reached Hamadan, where, finding the disease gaining ground, he refused to keep up the regimen imposed, and resigned himself to his fate.

  • He died in June 1037, in his fif tyeighth year, and was buried in Hamadan.

  • J.) Malayir, a small province of Persia, situated between Hamadan and Burujird.

  • from Hamadan and 32 m.

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