Qaplan Tu
Village in Kurdistan, Iran
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Qaplan Tu (Persian: قپلانتو, also Romanized as Qaplān Tū and Qaplāntū)[1] is a village in Gol Tappeh Rural District, Ziviyeh District, Saqqez County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 711, in 166 families.[2] The village is populated by Kurds.[3]
Name
The name "Qaplan Tu" is Mongolian in origin and means "having panthers".[4]: 68 The name of the Qaflankuh mountains has the same etymology, although its current form is slightly distorted from the original.[4]: 68
