Capitals of Persia

Capitals of Persia

Regional and Imperial capitals of Persia in history:

*Ardabil, Safavid
*Babylon, Achaemenid era
*Baghdad, caliphates, Jalayerid, Buwayhid
*Balkh, i.e. Bactria
*Bukhara, Taherid dynasty, Samanid
*Ctesiphon, a.k.a al-Mada'in, Sassanid era
*Damghan, Parthian era
*Esfahan, Safavid, Ziyarid, Seljuq
*Firouzabad, Sassanid era
*Ghazni, Ghaznavid era
*Hamedan or ("Ecbatana"), Median Empire, Achaemenid era
*Herat, Kara Koyunlu
*Kerman, Zand dynasty
*Kunya Urgench, (گُرگانج) of the Khwarazmid era
*Maragheh, Ilkhanid
*Mashad, Afsharid
*Merv, capital during al-Mamun's caliphate, and Taherid era
*Neyshabur, Ilkhanid, Seljuq, Taherid eras
*Nisa, Turkmenistan, capital of Parthian era
*Persepolis, Achaemenid
*Qazvin, early Safavid
*Samarkand, Tamerlane
*Shahrisabz, Sheybanid
*Shiraz, Zand dynasty, Buwayhid
*Susa, Achaemenid and Elamite era
*Tabriz, Ilkhanid, Safavid
*Tehran, 1779-current
*Zaranj, Saffarid dynasty

ee also

*List of historical capitals of China
*Greater Iran


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