Aran Explained

Aran may refer to:

Places

Azerbaijan

Villages and municipalities:

• Aran, Aghjabadi
• Aran, Lerik
• Aran, Shaki
• Aran, Tovuz
• Aran, Yevlakh

Iran

• Aran, Alborz, a village in Alborz Province
• Aran, Nain, a village in Isfahan Province
• Aran, Kermanshah, a village in Kermanshah Province
• Aran, former name of the city of Rezvanshahr, Isfahan
• Aran, former name of Bileh Savar in Ardabil Province

Russia

• Aran, Republic of Dagestan

Elsewhere

• Aran Fawddwy, mountain in Wales, United Kingdom
  • Aran Benllyn, subsidiary summit
• Aran (river), in France
• Aran Islands, a group of islands across the mouth of Galway Bay, Ireland
• Arranmore, also known as Aran Island, off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland
• Val d'Aran, a comarca of Catalonia consisting of the Aran Valley
• Aran Island (disambiguation), several islands

People

• Aran Bell, American ballet dancer
• Aran Embleton (born 1981), English female international footballer
• Aran Fox (born 1988), English ice hockey goaltender
• Aran Hakutora (born 1984), Russian sumo wrestler
• Aran Jones, chief executive of Cymuned, a Welsh pressure group
• Aran Tharp (born 1977), New York filmmaker
• Aran Zalewski (born 1991), Australian field hockey player
• François-Amilcar Aran (1817–1861), French physician

Fictional characters

• Samus Aran, the protagonist of Nintendo's Metroid video game series
• Aran Linvail, in the role-playing game Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
• Aran Ryan, in the Nintendo-produced Punch-Out!! game series

Other uses

• Aran or Haran, brother of Abraham in the Bible
• Aran sweater, a sweater manufactured in Ireland
• , a former vessel of the Swedish Navy
• Aran (film), a 2006 film in the Tamil language
• , ISO 15294 code for the Nastaliq (Persian and Urdu) script

See also

• • Aaron (disambiguation)
• Arran (disambiguation)
• Arun (disambiguation)
• Earl of Arran (Ireland)
• Enda of Aran (5th-6th century), Irish saint
• Aer Arann, former regional airline in Ireland