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unusual facts about Gilan



Amlash culture

Amlash, now a county in Gilan province, was a small village in southeastern Gilan in 1959.

Georgia–Persia relations

Georgian “Dowry Books” very often refer to clothes make from fabrics manufactured in Iran, such as daraia of Yazd, wool of Kerman, daraya of Gilan, wool of Rizaiyh, sheidish of Yezd, and of Khar.

Iranian Georgians

There were other compact settlements in Khorasan at Abbas Abad (half-way between Shahrood and Sabzevar where there remained only one old woman who remembered Georgian in 1934), Mazandaran at Behshahr and Farah Abad, Gilan, Isfahan Province at Najafabad, Badrud, Rahmatabad, Yazdanshahr and Amir Abad.

Ispahsalar

The Mongol conquests diminished the use of the title, bringing to the fore Turkish and Mongol ones instead, but it remained in widespread use in the isolated and conservative regions of Gilan and Daylam on the Caspian shore.

Keikavus

He tells about the genealogy of his father, saying that he was an descendant of Arghush Farhadan, the king of Gilan, who lived during the time of Kai Khosrow.

Rezvanshahr

Rezvanshahr County, an administrative subdivision in Gīlan Province, Iran

Shapur I

In 242, the Roman emperor Gordian III set out against the Sasanians with “a huge army and great quantity of gold,” (according to a Sasanian rock relief) and wintered in Antioch, while Shapur was busy in subduing Khwarezm and Gilan.

Siahkal incident

The Siahkal incident (Persian: قیام سیاهکل) was a guerrilla operation against Pahlavi government organized by Iranian People's Fadaee Guerrillas that happened near Siahkal town in Gilan on February 8, 1971.

Tabaristan

When the Sasanian Empire fell, Yazdegerd III ordered Adhar Valash to cede the dominion to spahbed Gil Gavbara in 645 CE, while western and Southern Gilan and other parts of Gil's domain merged under the name of Tapuria.


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