Ābādān
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Ābādān, Iran, Turkmenistan 1. Iran: an island and city possibly named after ʼAbbad ibn al‐Hussein, a holy man who founded a garrison here in the 8th century. However, it has also been suggested that its Arabic form ʼAbbādān is derived from
ʼabbād ‘worshipper’. Another possibility is that it comes from
āb ‘water’ and the root
pā ‘watch’ or ‘guard’ to give ‘guard post’. In subsequent years it declined, but later became the object of a long‐running dispute between the Persians and Ottoman Turks. Finally acquired by the Persians in 1847, it developed from a village after the discovery of oil nearby in 1908.2. Turkmenistan: spelt Abadan. It was formerly Bezmein.
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