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unusual facts about Blue Mosque, Tabriz



Ahmad Hussein Adl

Ahmad Hussein Adl (Tabriz 1989-Tehran 1962) was minster of agriculture for several period in Ahmad Qavam, Ebrahim Hakimi, and Ebrahim Hakimi governments.

Aji Chay

Historical Aji Chay Bridge over the river, on the old Tabriz road to Marand, is located just outside of Tabriz and east of the Tabriz International Airport.

Ali Qapu

East-Azerbaijan State Palace, Tabriz, Iran, known as Aali Qapu during Safavid times

Aqa Mirak

The contemporary chronicler Dust Muhammad mentioned that Aqa Mirak along with Mir Musavvir did wall paintings for Prince Sam Mirza's palace in Tabriz and illustrations for royal manuscripts of Firdawsi's Shahnameh ('Book of kings') and Nizami's Khamsa ('Five poems').

Augustus Abbott

In addition to Frederick and James, Augustus had two other younger brothers: Saunders Alexius Abbott (1811–1894), also an army officer in the East India Company, who played an important part in the Battle of Mudki during the First Anglo-Sikh War, and made the rank of major-general, and Keith Edward Abbott (d. 1873), consul-general at Tabriz and later Odessa.

Avetik Sahakyan

After Armenia became a Soviet republic Avetik Sahakyan moved to Tabriz.

Azerbaijan in World War II

Railwaymen of Azerbaijan carried out a maintenance and general exploitation of Julfa-Tabriz railway road according to rules of the wartime.

Blue Mosque, Tabriz

The diverse Kufic, and Thuluth scripts, the arabesque patterns, and the choramatic compositions of these facades, were created by Nematollah-ben-Mohammad-ol-Bavab, the famous calligrapher.

Blue Mosque, Yerevan

As reported by 19th-century traveller H.F.B. Lynch, the Blue Mosque was commissioned to be built during the reign of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah (1736–47) by Husayn Ali Khan.

Bostanabad

Warm Water Spring which is located near the main road between Tabriz and Tehran Aq Bolaq Cave which is located south to Qareh Chaman.

Bostanabad County

The town of Bostanabad in Bostanabad County, located 55 kilometers from Tabriz, was built on the site of the old city of Ojan whose name has been mentioned in many history books since the sixth century AH.

Elif Şafak

Their unusual story is set against a historical background that narrates the remarkable spiritual bond between Rumi and Shams of Tabriz.

Gustav Krist

En route he had been recaptured but jumped a prison-train and made his way via Merv, Northern Afghanistan and Meshed to Tabriz.

Jane Dieulafoy

The first journey to Persia was by freighter from Marseilles to Constantinople, by a Russian boat to Poti on the east coast of the Black Sea, and then across the Caucasus and via Azerbaijan to Tabriz.

Jolfa

Jolfa is located to the north of Tabriz, separated by the Aras River from its northern neighbor and namesake, the town of Julfa in the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Machine Sazi Dabiri Tabriz F.C.

On April 25, 2009 Shahram Dabiri bought Machine Sazi and renamed the club to Machine Sazi Dabiri Tabriz.

Marino Sanuto the Elder

Among his friends and correspondents were Guglielmo Bernardi de Furvo, a Venetian nobleman who had travelled extensively in Muslem and Mongol lands (to Tabriz, Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo), Bishop Jerome of Kaffa, in the Crimea, who in 1312 had been sent to reinforce the Catholic mission in China, and perhaps Peter, the English-born bishop of Sevastopolis or Sukhum Kale in western Caucasia, who makes an appeal for aid to the prelates of England in 1330.

Marius Goring

Goring's voice provides the narration of the sound and light show performed regularly in the evening at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.

Marzuban ibn Muhammad

This momentary weakness in the central administration allowed the Rawadids and Shaddadids to take control of the area to the northeast of Tabriz Dvin, respectively.

Michiel Sweerts

Travelling to Aleppo (Syria), and from there to Tabriz in Persia, he was dismissed by the Society after causing too much trouble to those around him at the end of June 1662.

Mir Sayyid Ali

Born in Tabriz, Mir Seyyed Ali was the son of artist Mir Musavvir.

Mir-Fatah-Agha

Paskevich’s departure to Warsaw and bad relations with subsequent governor generals forced him to return to Tabriz in 1845.

Rawadid dynasty

Toghrul conquered the principality in 1054 CE, and he defeated the prince of Tabriz Wahsudan ibn Mamlan.

Riccoldo da Monte di Croce

In and near Tabriz he preached for several months, after which he proceeded to Baghdad via Mosul and Tikrit.

State Department Award for Valor

Political Officer Michael J. Metrinko received two: one for his time as a hostage and another for his daring rescue of Americans who had been jailed in Tabriz months before the embassy takeover.

Tabriz earthquake

1727 Tabriz earthquake, earthquake near Tabriz, Iran on 18 November 1727

The Walking Drum

Leaving Tabriz, Mathurin and Khatib travel alongside a caravan as far as Qazvin, where ibn-Ibrahim receives gifts and an invitation to visit Alamut.

Tokhtamysh–Timur war

The city of Tabriz was plundered and Tokhtamysh could retire with a rich booty.

William George Browne

He spent the winter in Smyrna, and in the spring of 1813 travelled through Asia Minor and Armenia, made a short stay at Erzurum, and arrived on the June 1 at Tabriz.


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