Astar Abad - استر أباد
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Astar Abad; استر أباد; Astarābād; Asterabad; Esterabad; Alēstan (?); ألستان (?); استراباذ
Astarābādh (modern Gurgan), historically a province as well as a town, is located in what the ancient Greeks called Hyrcania, adjacent to the Persian province of Māzandarān. The city, some thirty kilometres east of the Caspian Sea, has origins going back to Achaemenid times (550–330 B.C.E.).
استراباذ مدينة بجرجان وقرية بنسا خراسان
location: 36.72195 54.84358
identifier: https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5178
identifier: http://syriaca.org/place/5178
identifier: http://www.geonames.org/144233/alestan.html
Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī 25
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition P. Bearman
http://www.geonames.org/144233/alestan.html GeoNames Marc Wick