Ekhtiarieh

Dibaji Park along Dibaji Street

Ekhtiarieh (Dibaji) is a district in northern Tehran, Iran.

Often referred to as Ekhtiyarieh or South Dibaji, Dibaji is located mainly along Dibaji Street and refers to the areas surrounding the street south from Sadr Expressway but north of Pasdaran Avenue and Kolahdooz Avenue.

Ekhtiarieh is suburban and consists mostly of modest, upper-middle class homes and apartment buildings as well as some scattered shops. In contrast to many of the upscale and flashy districts surrounding it (such as Farmanieh and Shemiran), Dibaji is known to be relatively modest and religious.

The area is centered around Dibaji Park, and the district is generally considered one of Tehran's greenest and safest.

The name Dibaji refers to Dibaj which is the name of a town in present-day Mazandaran.

History

The land in this area as whole once belonged to an aristocrat named Saheb Ekhtiyar, and it is from his name that the name Ekhtiyarieh originates, which could roughly be translated as the place belonging to, or related to Ekhtiyar.

In the 1970s, most of Dibaji was built and in the 1990s the Sadr Expressway was constructed alongside the development's northern border.

See also

Dolat