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unusual facts about Firuzabad, Fars



'Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Quraysh

He ruled Fars until 869, when he was defeated and captured by Ya'qub ibn al-Layth, the Saffarid amir of Sistan.

Ata'ollah Mohajerani

In 2004, the conservative Islamist news agency Fars accused him of polygamous marriage and adultery, a charged denied by Mohajerani and his wife.

Baha' al-Dawla

Baha' al-Dawla (meaning "Splendour of the State"; died December 22, 1012) was the Buyid amir of Iraq (988–1012), along with Fars and Kerman (998–1012).

Another brother, Samsam al-Dawla, prevented Baha' al-Dawla from gaining all of Sharaf al-Dawla's possessions by taking control of Fars, Kerman and Khuzestan.

Banu Ilyas

Muhammad quickly angered the neighboring Buyids under 'Adud al-Daula by arguing over some territory on the border of Kerman and Fars.

Basseri

The Basseri are a nomadic, pastoral tribe of the Fars region of present-day Iran.

Battle of Qarabagh

He sent two detachments; one to take possession of Iraq-i-Ajam, the other of Fars.

Buyid dynasty

Generally, the three most powerful Buyid amirs at any given time were those in control of Fars, Jibal and Iraq.

Ebrahim Khan Kalantar

Ebrahim Khan became very influential in Zand era and became the Kalantar of Fars.

Firuzabad, Fars

It had a circular plan so precise in measurement that the Persian historian Ibn Balkhi wrote it to be "devised using a compass".

Islamic Azad University of Arsanjan

Islamic Azad University of Arsanjan (IAUA) is a university in Arsanjan, Fars, Iran.

Islamic Republic of Iran Air Defense Force

On 21 August 2012 The Iranian military has started construction of its largest air defense base in the city of Abadeh in the Southern Fars province,the air defense base is due to be built at the cost of $300mln and will have 6,000 personnel for a large array of duties, including educational ones.

Islamization of Iran

In almost all the Iranian provinces, according to Al Masudi, fire temples were to be found – the Madjus he says, venerate many fire temples in Iraq, Fars, Kirman, Sistan, Khurasan, Tabaristan, al Djibal, Azerbaijan and Arran.

Kamalisarvestani

They have been the heads and grandees of this region of Fars for around 200 years.

Ladan and Laleh Bijani

They were born in Firuzabad, a city in southwest Iran, to Dadollah Bijani and Maryam Safari, members of a farming family from Lohrasb.

Lakhmids

From this position he attacked the coastal cities of Iran (Persia) - which at that time was in civil war, due to a dispute as to the succession - even raiding the birthplace of the Sassanid kings, the province of Pars (Fars).

Margoon Waterfall

Margoon (Margun) Waterfall is located in the Fars province of Iran near the city of Sepidan.

Massud Mirza

During his career, he was posted as the governor of Isfahan for over 35 years, and the governor of the cities of Mazandaran, Fars, and Isfahan for a combined 40 years.

Moghavemat Shiraz F.C.

Moghavemat Basij Shiraz F.C., an Azadegan League club, formerly known as Mersad Shiraz F.C., based in Shiraz, Fars

Muhammad ibn Wasil

In 875, Musa ibn Bugha, who had been given responsibility for Fars by the central government, sent an army under the command of 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Muflih to establish a firm Abbasid presence in the province.

Qurayshi al-Shirazi

Nur al-Din Muhammad Abd-Allah ibn Hakim ‘Ayn al-Mulk Qurayshi Shirazi was a mid 17th century Persian physician from Shiraz, Fars, Iran.

Rais Ali Delvari

The fragile British control over Fārs was disrupted in May 1918 when Ṣawlat-al-Dawla, leading the Qashqais and other pro-German tribal forces from Kazerun, Dashti, Dashtestan and Tangestan, embarked upon a war against the British.

Robertson Field

Robertson Airfield in Robertson, Western Cape South Africa (ICAO: FARS)

Saffarid dynasty

Ya'qub then turned his focus to the west and began attacks on Khorasan, Khuzestan, Kerman and Fars.

By the time of Ya'qub's death, he had conquered the Kabul Valley, Sindh, Tocharistan, Makran (Balochistan), Kerman, Fars, Khorasan, and nearly reached Baghdad but then suffered a defeat by the Abbasids.

Sasanian art

Firuzabad is a settlement built under Adaschir I and a well-documented example of Sasanian urban planning.

Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi

Suhrawardi refers to the hukamayya-fars (Persian philosophers) as major practitioners of his Ishraqi wisdom and considers Zoroaster, Jamasp, Goshtasp, Kay Khusraw, Frashostar and Bozorgmehr as possessors of this ancient wisdom.

Shapur II's Arab campaign

He collected an army on the coast of Fars, he first began to pacify the Arab tribes and secure the borders of the empire.

Teimuraz I of Kakheti

In 1633, he gave shelter to his brother-in-law Daud Khan, the Iranian governor (beglarbeg) of Ganja and Karabakh of Georgian extraction, who had fled Shah Safi’s crackdown on the family of his brother Imam-Quli Khan, the influential governor of Fars, Lar and Bahrain.


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