Abstract:

Toponymy as an integral part of linking Geographic Sciences, linguistics and archeology plays an important role and has a special place in the study of historical events and the cultural characteristics and attributes of human societies in the past, from which have been remained only the name of the document and their written works. Meanwhile, the geographical location of Iran as the terminus of incredible historical events and the superiority of oral culture has led to the cultural and political events of many parts of the country in the history of the country so that nothing but the name of them has been left. The ancient city of Nahavand and many of the geographical points of this city are not far from the features mentioned. Meanwhile, the study of the "mountains of Ārdešān" Near mentioned city from the toponomy point of view, along with the perimeter names of this mountain, where no research has ever been done about them, is at the center of this paper. The present research, which has a descriptive-analytical nature, uses a historical approach to explore the geography of mountains of Ārdešān by using library and field methods (referring to the place and using the dialect Native inputs (inputs and data) required for its collection are collected. The result of the research showed that their Ārdešān means "holy place".