Shahriyar

Shahriyar (Persian: شهریار‎‎), also spelled as Shariyar, Shahryar, Shakhriyar, Shahryār, Shahriār, Sheharyar, Shaheryar, Shaharyar or Shehiryar means 'Great King'. In its Urdu transliteration, it is attributed as City Friend, from the Urdu composition of the name (Shahr - city and yar - friend). It may refer to:

Geography

• Shahriar, a city in Tehran Province, Iran
• Shahriar County, a county in Tehran Province
• Shahriar, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, a village in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran
• Shahriar, Fars, a village in Fars Province, Iran
• Shahriar-e Tavakkoli, a village in Fars Province, Iran
• Shahriar, Lorestan, a village in Lorestan Province, Iran
• Robat Karim, a city in Tehran Province, formerly called Shahriyar
• Shagriar (disambiguation), various towns in Armenia
• Shahryar (crater), a crater on Saturn's moon Enceladus

People

• Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Mohammed Hussein Behjet, who uses the pen name Shahriar
• Ishaq Shahryar, the Afghan ambassador to the United States
• Shahryar (Mughal prince), younger brother of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
• Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Azerbaijani chess player
• Shahryar (singer), a Persian pop singer
• Shahryar, pen name of Akhlaq Mohammed Khan (1936 – 2012), Urdu poet, academic and Bollywood lyricist
• Shahryar Khan, former Pakistani diplomat
• Shahriar Shafiq, assassinated Iranian navy officer and Ashraf Pahlavi's son

Fictional characters

• Shahryar, the fictional Sassanid king in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights