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Title: Iran


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Iran
  • Located in Asia

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It has five main cities
  • Tehran(the capital of Iran)
  • Esfahan
  • Shiraz
  • Mashhad
  • Tabriz

3
Tehran
  • Tehran is the capital of Iran that has lots of
    the last kings palaces in it
  • It has an ancient market place that is called
    bazar

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Esfahan
  • It has the most numbers monuments in Iran. One of
    them is ali-ghapoo
  • Ali Qapu (Turkish for Sublime Gate Persian
    ?????????) is a grand palace in Isfahan, Iran. It
    is located on the western side of the Naghsh-i
    Jahan Square opposite to Sheikh lotf allah
    mosque, and had been originally designed as a
    vast portal. It is forty-eight meters high and
    there are seven floors, each accessible by a
    difficult spiral staircase. In the sixth floor
    music room, deep circular niches are found in the
    walls, having not only aesthetic value, but also
    acoustic.The name Ali Qapu, Turkish for "high
    gate", was given to this place as it was right at
    the entrance to the Safavid palaces which
    stretched from the Maidan Naqsh-i-Jahan to the
    Chahar Bagh Boulevard. The building, another
    wonderful Safavid edifice, was built by decree of
    Shah Abbas the Great in the early seventeenth
    century. It was here that the great monarch used
    to entertain noble visitors, and foreign
    ambassadors.
  • It has masterpieces of tiles

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Shiraz
  • Persepolis - its ancient name was Parsa to
    ancient Persians, its modern name is Takht-e
    Jamshid, (Persian Throne of Jamshid), to
    Iranians it was the capital of the Achaemenid
    kings of Iran (Persia). Persepolis is located
    about 50 kms northeast of Shiraz in the province
    of Fars in southwestern Iran. It was set on fire
    by Alexander upon his defeat of Darius III. The
    Achaeminid Empire was large and important it
    covered Iran, Irak, Turkey, Armenia, Macedonia
    (FYROM), a part of Syria,Israël and Egypt. In the
    North Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and
    Uzbekistan... 24 different nationalities.
  • Qavam House (also widely called "Narenjestan e
    Ghavam") is a traditional and historical house in
    Shiraz, Iran.It was built in the mid to late
    1800s by Mirza Ibrahim Khan. The Qavam family
    were merchants originally from Qazvin. But they
    soon became active in the government during the
    Zand dynasty, followed by the Qajar and Pahlavi
    dynasty as well.The Qavam "Naranjestan"
    preserves the elegance and refinement enjoyed by
    the upper class families during the nineteenth
    century.
  • Masjede vakil

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tabriz
  • Municipal House of Tabriz is the first and the
    oldest municipal in Iran, which has been built in
    1939 by German engineers. If you look above, it
    looks like a flying eagle. The area is 9600 m2,
    and the cost was something around 255 at the
    time. 
  • Tabriz, Blue Mosque The Blue Mosque (Persian
    ???? ???? Masjed-e Kabud, Azerbaijani ??? ?????
    )is a famous historic mosque in Tabriz, Iran. The
    mosque and some other public buildings were
    constructed in 1465 upon the order of Jahan Shah,
    the ruler of Kara Koyunlu.The mosque was
    severely damaged in an earthquake in 1779,
    leaving only the entrance iwan. Reconstruction
    began in 1973 by the late Reza Memaran Benam
    under the supervision of Iranian Ministry of
    Culture. However, the tiling is still incompelete

7
Mashhad
  • Ferdosi(poet)s tomb
  • This is the Shrine of Imam REZA ... the shiit's
    8th IMAM ... the building is the largest shrine
    and one the most beautiful Gothic Style Plaza in
    the world ... every year more than 6 million
    people comes here to pilgrimage from outside of
    iran and local iranians. the dome of this
    shrine is Full GOLD Blocks ... this building
    build in 8th Century! about 1224 years ago ... it
    wasn't this big in that time but in each era of
    Persian History, Some parts Added to the main
    core ... and the core is the oldest part of the
    shrine ... whenever you are getting far from the
    core ... the era will change ... and it's like
    you are in a history book are a time
    machine.some of the most important history
    events happend here ... people make the special
    lighting and decorations for the new year's
    holidays

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Delicious food from iran
  • Kabab koobide
  • Jooje kabab
  • Kabab barg
  • Ghormesabzi
  • Morasa polo
  • kashke bademjan
  • Zereshk polo
  • Koofte
  • Khoreshte gheime
  • Khoreshte bademjan
  • Sabzipolo ba mahi
  • Fesenjan
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