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Maidan is an originally
Persian word for a
town square or public
gathering place (Persian: میدان ), adopted by various other languages:
Urdu میدان (maidān );
Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān );
Turkish meydan ;
Georgian მოედანი (moedani );
Bangla ময়দান, meaning field, and
Crimean Tatar , from which
Ukrainian also borrowed
maidan .
[1] Its ultimate source is
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos - compare
Avestan maiδya ,
Sanskrit मध्य (madhya ) and Latin medius . Various versions include maydan , midan , meydan , majdan , mayadeen and maydān . It also means field (मैदान) in Hindi.
[2] It became a loanword in other
South Asian languages to give similar means, such as in
Tamil in which the word is maidhanam .
The broad geographical footprint of the use of Maidan in
toponymy , from Central Europe to South-East Asia, is a reflection of the Turkish rule in these areas.[
citation needed ]
Places
In the Persian and Central Asian space
Towns and villages in Iran:
Meydan, Fars , Fars Province
Meydan, Ilam , Ilam Province
Meydan, Baft , Kerman Province
Meydan, Rabor , Kerman Province
Meydan, Harsin , Kermanshah Province
Meydan, Kermanshah , Kermanshah Province
Meydan, Sonqor , Kermanshah Province
Meydan, Khuzestan , Khuzestan Province
Meydan, Dorud , Khuzestan Province
Meydan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
Meydan-e Mozaffarkhan , Kurdistan
Meydan, West Azerbaijan
Meydan-e Olya , West Azerbaijan Province
Meydan-e Sofla , West Azerbaijan Province
Meydan Khalaf
Meydan Tarreh Barahvaz
Meydan Jiq, Malekan
Meydan-e Bozorg , Lorestan Province
Meydanlar , East Azerbaijan Province
Meydan-e Khodaverdi
Meydan-e Tafalli
Ban Meydan-e Abdollah
Chal Meydan
Eslamabad-e Sar Meydan
Kalateh-ye Meydan
Qaleh Meydan (disambiguation) , various places
Qezelejah Meydan
Sang Dar Meydan (disambiguation) , various places
Sarmeydan
Soltan Meydan
Tak Meydan
Meydan, Afghanistan , village in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan
Maydan, Kyrgyzstan , a town in Kyrgyzstan
Maidan Shar , the capital of Wardak province, Afghanistan
Mehraneh river (Meydan Chayi), a river in Tabriz, Iran
Tavisuplebis Moedani or
Freedom Square, Tbilisi , the central square of Tbilisi, Georgia
In South Asia and Southeast Asia
Maidan (Tirah) , a remote valley in Khyber District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Maidan, Nepal , a municipality in southern Nepal
Maidan, Lower Dir District , a valley in Lower Dir District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Asramam Maidan , the first airport of Kerala state, in Kollam, India
Medan , Indonesia - capital city of North Sumatra province
Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad , India, originally named Fateh Maidan ("Victory Square")
Maidan (Kolkata) , India, also referred to as the Brigade Parade Ground
In the former Ottoman / Mamluk space
Meydan, Gölbaşı , a village in the district of Gölbaşı, Adıyaman Province, Turkey
Meydan, Kurucaşile , a village in the district of Kurucaşile, Bartın Province, Turkey
Sultanahmet Square (Sultanahmet Meydanı ), formerly Atmeydanı ("Horse Square"), in the center of Istanbul, Turkey
Taksim Meydanı or
Taksim Square , another central public square in Istanbul, Turkey
Midan at-Tahrir or
Tahrir Square , the central public space of Cairo, Egypt
The esplanade formerly known as Maydan or Hippodrome outside the
Cairo Citadel
Majdan (Novi Kneževac) , a village in North Banat District, Vojvodina province, Serbia
Meidan Ekbis , a small town in Syria
Al-Midan , neighbourhood and municipality in Damascus, Syria
Maydan al Shajara , a town square in Benghazi, Libya
Tašmajdan Park , a major public space in Belgrade, Serbia
Dubai Meydan City , United Arab Emirates
Maidan , the Romanian name for
Majdanpek in Serbia
Mïdän at Taḥrǐr or
Tahrir Square , Alexandria, Egypt
Tahrir Square, Sanaa , or Maidan at-Tahrir , in Sanaa, Yemen
Al-Maidan Square , Baghdad, Iraq
In Poland
Poland took up the word majdan from its numerous exchanges with the Ottoman and other Persianate-influenced cultures.
[3]
Majdan, Gmina Wojsławice in Lublin Voivodeship
Majdan, Gmina Żmudź in Lublin Voivodeship
Majdan, Hrubieszów County in Lublin Voivodeship
Majdan, Janów Lubelski County in Lublin Voivodeship
Majdan, Białystok County in Podlaskie Voivodeship
Majdan, Hajnówka County in Podlaskie Voivodeship
Majdan, Suwałki County in Podlaskie Voivodeship
Majdan, Tomaszów Lubelski County in Lublin Voivodeship
Majdan, Lesko County in Subcarpathian Voivodeship
Majdan, Garwolin County in Masovian Voivodeship
Majdan, Mińsk County in Masovian Voivodeship
Majdan, Ostrołęka County in Masovian Voivodeship
Majdan, Otwock County in Masovian Voivodeship
Majdan, Gmina Łochów in Masovian Voivodeship
Majdan, Gmina Stoczek in Masovian Voivodeship
Majdan, Gmina Wierzbno in Masovian Voivodeship
Majdan, Wołomin County in Masovian Voivodeship
Majdan, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
In Romania
Maidan, a village in
Cacica Commune, Suceava County
Maidan , the former name of Brădișoru de Jos village,
Oravița Town, Caraș-Severin County
In Ukraine
Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Майдан Незалежності) or Independence Square, the central square of
Kyiv
Maidan Konstytutsii (Kharkiv Metro) , or Constitution Square, a metro station in Kharkiv
Maidan Pratsi (Kryvyi Rih Metrotram)
Staryi Maidan , village in Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Viche Maidan (Ivano-Frankivsk) , a city square
Maidan, a village in
Berehomet rural hromada, Vyzhnytsia Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast
Maidan, a village in Vyzhnytsia urban hromada,
Vyzhnytsia Raion , Chernivtsi Oblast
Maidan, a village in
Tysmenytsia Raion , Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Other uses in Ukraine
See also
Majdany , the plural form of Majdan.
Notes