Maidan
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A maidān is a Persian term for any open plain, park or square. It can be translated literally as 'field'.
- Maidan (Isfahan) - the great royal square of Isfahan, a world heritage site.
- Maidan (Kolkata) - the Maidan park in Kolkata
- Maidan (Karnataka) - an unofficial region of Karnataka state of southern India, on the Deccan plateau
- Maidan (Ukrainian: Майдан) is a meeting or gathering place, market place, forum, etc., or simply "area."
- Maidan Nezalezhnosti - Independence Square is the central square of Kyiv best known for mass protests during the Orange Revolution.
- Mäydan/Мәйдан is a square and area in Tatar language and also the place of Sabantuy.
- The term "Maidan" is also applied to one of the valleys in the Afridi country of Tirah in Pakistan
The Ukrainian language uses the Cyrillic alphabet, and the letter й may be transliterated into an I, Y, or J, depending on the transliteration system in use, hence majdan or maidan.
Majdan is also a common location name found in Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine, for example, Majdanek.
In the novel "Flashman in the Great Game" by George MacDonald Fraser, the term is used frequently to refer to the parade grounds at British military camps in colonial India.
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