Elburz Mountains

[ el-boorz ]

plural noun

1. a mountain range in N Iran, along the S coast of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak, Mt. Demavend, 18,606 feet (5,671 meters).

Elburz Mountains

/ ɛlˈbʊəz /

plural noun

1. a mountain range in N Iran, parallel to the SW and S shores of the Caspian Sea. Highest peak: Mount Demavend, 5671 m (18 606 ft)

Example Sentences

In the Mazandaran province of northern Iran, where the Elburz Mountains careen toward the Caspian Sea, Asieh Amini grew up on a farm surrounded by kiwi and tangerine orchards.

From The New Yorker

Try Takht-e Soleyman and Hamedan in the east, or explore the Elburz mountains on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea.

From The Guardian

But as we mounted, higher and ever higher over the Elburz Mountains, we soon lost this English type of scenery.

From Project Gutenberg

From the Tigris valley on the west it is only accessible by surmounting the Zagros chain and lesser ranges; and to attain it from the north the traveller must climb the rocky pathways of the Elburz mountains.

From Project Gutenberg

"Who built your new mosque?" the headman of the village of Hesar Khorvan on the slopes of the Elburz Mountains is asked.

From Time Magazine Archive