Burbur, Kermanshah Explained

Official Name:	Burbur
Native Name:	بوربور
Settlement Type:	village
Pushpin Map:	Iran
Mapsize:	150px
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Type1:	Province
Subdivision Name1:	Kermanshah
Subdivision Type2:	County
Subdivision Name2:	Kermanshah
Subdivision Type3:	Bakhsh
Subdivision Name3:	Kuzaran
Subdivision Type4:	Rural District
Subdivision Name4:	Sanjabi
Population As Of:	2006
Population Total:	320
Population Density Km2:	auto
Timezone:	IRST
Utc Offset:	+3:30
Timezone Dst:	IRDT
Utc Offset Dst:	+4:30
Coordinates:	34.4725°N 46.6622°W

Burbur (Persian: بوربور, also Romanized as Būrbūr) is a village in Sanjabi Rural District, Kuzaran District, Kermanshah County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 320, in 68 families. The village is on the road to Kermanshah, about 45 km away^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Villagers of Fame are:

• Doctor Arash Ebrahimi plasma physics professor at the University of Glasgow
• Assistant Professor Majid Samii mr khodadad salimi doctor and professor at Harvard University
• Farhad Fathi doctor Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of London

Notes and References

1. [Dariush Borbor]
2. داریوش بوربور، «تحقیق پیرامون مکان نام‌های ایران با عنصر بور»، نامه پژوهشگاه میراث فرهنگی، تهران، ۱۳۷۲، جلد ۲، شماره ۴، سری ۹، ص ۱۱۰-۱۱۲.
3. Dariush Borbor, “A Revision of the Diachrony, Synchrony, Etymology and Gloss of the New Persian bōr (بور)”, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Iranian Languages and Dialects (past and present), Tehran, 2015, pp. 551-566.
4. Dariush Borbor, “Burbur Tribe”, Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, 2014, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/burbur-tribe (accessed on 12 November 2014).