sentences:  Its prestigious ancient name of Abivard (the Apavartene in the works of the ancient geographers, Ptolemy and Strabo) was changed just a few years ago, believing wrongly that it is a later Arabic name.Apavarta simply meant "rosewater" in Parthian and Old Persian.At the 2006 census, the county's population was 73,439, in 19,435 families.