Alpavat
Village in East Azerbaijan, Iran
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Alpavat (Persian: الپاوت, also Romanized as Alpāvat and Ālpāvot)[1] is a village in Mavazekhan-e Sharqi Rural District, Khvajeh District, Heris County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 69, in 19 families.[2]
Name
According to Vladimir Minorsky, the name of this village is derived from the Mongolian word alpā'ut, which referred to "a privileged class".[3]: 76
