Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northwest Iran northwest of Tehran. Founded in the third century AD, it was captured by the Arabs in 644 and was the capital of Persia from 1548 to 1598.
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- proper noun A city in the northwest of
Iran . Capital of Qazvin Province. Population: 331,409.
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Examples
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A Russian-built Caspian Airlines plane crashed in Iran headed for Yerevan, Armenia on Wednesday after it caught on fire in mid-air and killed all 168 people on board when it collided into farmland near the city of Qazvin, just 16 minutes after take off.
Global Voices in English » Iran: Armenian bloggers on plane crash 2009
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A year and a half ago, the Iranian media reported that a man was executed in the city of Qazvin by stoning.
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A year and a half ago, Iranian media reported that a man was executed by stoning in the city of Qazvin.
Iran's 7th-Century Justice Shirin Ebadi 2010
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The People's Mujaheddin Organization said the new site is located just north of a major highway connecting Tehran with the Iranian city of Qazvin.
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Let's start with the latest news, that Iran is building a secret facility near Qazvin to evade International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring.
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A year and a half ago, the Iranian media reported that a man was executed in the city of Qazvin by stoning.
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The speaker, a cleric from Qazvin called Ali Khani, droned on.
Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010
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Video clips showed opposition rallies in the City of Mashhad, Qazvin and Shiraz, as well.
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Iranians gathered near the debris of the airplane, which crashed into farmland near the city of Qazvin, northwest of Tehran.
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An Armenia-bound Iranian commercial jet crashed Wednesday in Iran's northwest Qazvin province, killing all 168 passengers on board, in the worst air disaster in Iran in recent years.
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