Sangar
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Sangar (Persian: سنگر) is a surname found in Indo-Persian settlements in Middle East and South Asia. Most common in Iran, it is also found in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India where it is a surname of the Brahmin community. Sangar originally comes from the Persian word sang.[1] Many villages in Iran are named after this surname.
Sangar may also refer to:
Military usage
- Sangar (fortification), a small temporary fortified position originally made up of stone, now built of sandbags and similar materials
Places
- Sangar, Afghanistan, a town in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan
- Sangar, Darab, a village in Fars Province, Iran
- Sangar, Sepidan, a village in Fars Province, Iran
- Sangar, Iran, a city in Gilan Province, Iran
- Sangar, Lorestan, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
- Sangar, Markazi, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
- Sangar, Amol, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
- Sangar, Neka, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
- Sangar, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
- Sangar, Maku, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
- Sangar, Oshnavieh, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
- Sangar District, an administrative subdivision of Gilan Province, Iran
- Sangar Rural District (disambiguation), administrative subdivisions of Iran
- Sangar Urban Settlement, a municipal formation into which the settlement of Sangar in Kobyaysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia is incorporated
- Sangar, Russia, several inhabited localities in Russia
- Cape Sangar, a historical European name for Cape Tappi, located on the Tsugaru Peninsula, Honshū, Japan
- Sangar Strait, a historical European name for Tsugaru Strait, Japan
- Sangar, alternative name of Sang Kar, a village in Fars Province, Iran
- Sangar, alternative name of Sar Gar, a village in Fars Province, Iran
- Sangar, alternative name of Sangar-e Chanibeh-ye Do, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
See also
- Sangar-e Olya, a village in Fars Province, Iran
- Sangar-e Sofla, a village in Fars Province, Iran
- Sangar-e Mir Abdollah, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
References
- ↑ Garland Hampton Cannon, Alan S. Kaye. The Persian contributions to the English language: an historical dictionary, p. 126. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2001. ISBN 978-3-447-04503-2
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