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unusual facts about Pars Province



Yazdegerd III

After the Sasanian disaster, Yazdegerd fled to Isfahan and then Estakhr where he tried to organize a base for resistance in the province of Pars.


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Achaemenid architecture

Today the archaeological remnants of this once opulent city are about 70 kilometers northeast of the modern Iranian city of Shiraz, in the Pars province, in southwestern Iran.