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• Lenkoran

語源

From Persian لنکران (lankarân), from Old Median *Lan(a)karan- (“the land of the Lan”). The Lan is probably a name of a Caspian tribe. See also Old Armenian Փայտակարան (Pʻaytakaran).

固有名詞

Lankaran

1. A city (and district) in Azerbaijan.
   • 1863, Edward Cust, Annals of the Wars of the Nineteenth Century, volume III:

     In Persia, the Russians continued their operations with so much success that they gained a large portion of the shores of the Caspian Sea, and united them to the Czar's dominion, as far as Lankaran.

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 99:

     The triumphant Persians also managed to recover the great fortress of Lenkoran, on the Caspian shore.

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