Belegost

Belegost was one of two Dwarven cities located in the Blue Mountains during the First Age in Middle-earth.The Silmarillion (inside cover), "Map of Beleriand and the Lands to the North"
==History==
Belegost was one of the seven great kingdoms of the Dwarves.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. 12: The Peoples of Middle-earth, X: "Of Dwarves and Men" With her sister realm, Nogrod, Belegost was dug deep beneath Mount Dolmed in the Blue Mountains in the long First Age.
Amongst the Dwarves of Belegost were the finest smiths and stone-carvers in Middle-earth. In their armourer's halls they made many bright weapons and were the first people to forge chain-mail. The Dwarves of Belegost traded with the Sindar Elves of Beleriand and supplied them with weapons of incomparably tempered steel; furthermore these Dwarves carved the stone chambers of Menegroth. One of their payments for these services was Nimphelos, a great pearl.The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter X: "Of the Sindar"
In the First Age, the Dwarves of Belegost and their lord, Azaghâl, won great fame in the War of the Jewels. In the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, the Dwarves alone could withstand the heat of the Dragon-fire because being a race of smiths were used to great heat and on their helms they wore masks of steel. Their axes that they forged were strong enough to hold the Dragons in check. Though Azaghâl was slain, he wounded Glaurung, the Father of Dragons and the dragon brood fled the battleground, all the way back to Angband.The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter XX: "Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad" The Dwarves of Belegost were asked by the Dwarves of Nogrod for aid in their battle in the Thousand Caves against Doriath, but were refused.The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter XXII: "Of the Ruin of Doriath"
At the end of the First Age, Belegost was ruined in the War of Wrath, and around the fortieth year of the Second Age, the Dwarves of the Blue Mountains began to migrate to Khazad-dûm, abandoning Nogrod and Belegost.The Atlas of Middle-earth, The Second Age, "Refugee Relocation"
Although a great many Dwarves did indeed emigrate across Eriador some forty years after the war to join with Durin's Folk in Khazad-dûm, the mountains and flatlands north and west of the Little Lhûn remained Dwarf country.
Additionally, one of Tolkien's earlier maps, as shown by Christopher Tolkien in The Treason of Isengard (and echoed in Karen Wynn Fonstad's Atlas of Middle-earth), still shows Belegost in the Ered Luin in the time of the Third Age, indicating either a limited survival of the city, an indication of its ruins, or an error on the part of these authors. 
==Inhabitants==
In the twelfth volume of The History of Middle-earth, The Peoples of Middle-earth, an essay appears entitled Of Dwarves and Men which sheds some light on the people of Belegost. Circumstantial evidence given there suggests that the Dwarves of Belegost were unrelated to Durin's Folk, the Longbeards that appear in Tolkien's better-known work, and instead belonged to a different clan, either the Firebeards or the Broadbeams. The word-order used there suggests that Belegost was founded by the Broadbeams, while nearby Nogrod was populated by the Firebeard clan.
==Etymology==
Belegost was a Sindarin word for "mighty or great fortress", from Beleg, meaning 'strong' or 'mighty', and ost, meaning 'tower', or 'fortress'. Its name in Westron was Mickleburg,  and the Khuzdûl name for it was Gabilgathol.The Silmarillion, Index of Names
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Amharic 	በለጎስት
Arabic 	بيليغوست
Armenian 	Բելեգոստ
Assamese 	বেলেগোষ্ট
Belarusian Cyrillic	Белегоста
Bengali 	বেলেগস্ত
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Белегост
Chinese (Hong Kong)	貝磊勾斯特
Danish 	Belegost (Magleborg)
Georgian 	ბელეგოსტი
Greek 	βελεγοστ
Gujarati 	બેલેગસ્ટ
Hebrew 	בלגוסט
Hindi 	बेलेगोस्त
Japanese 	ベレゴスト
Kannada 	ಬೆಲೆಗೊಸ್ಟ್
Kazakh 	Белегост (Cyrillic) Belegost (Latin)
Korean 	베레 고스트
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Бэлэгост
Macedonian Cyrillic	Белегост
Maithili 	बेलेगोस्ट
Marathi 	बेलेगोस्त
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Белегост
Nepalese 	बेलेगोस्त
Pashto 	بېلېګوست
Persian 	بله‌گوست
Punjabi 	ਬੇਲੇਗੋਸ੍ਤ
Russian 	Белегост
Sanskrit 	बेलेगोस्त्
Sindhi 	بيلگوسٽ
Sinhalese 	බෙලෙගොස්ත්
Serbian 	Белегост (Cyrillic) Belegost (Latin)
Tajik Cyrillic 	Белегост
Tamil 	பெலோகோஸ்ட்
Telugu 	బెలెగోష్
Thai 	เบเลกอสต์
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Белеґост
Urdu 	بالیگوسٹ
Uzbek 	Белегост (Cyrillic) Belegost (Latin)
Yiddish 	בעלעגאָסט
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