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unusual facts about Vilashahr, Isfahan



Abdolvahab Shahidi

Abdolvahab Shahidi (Persian: عبدالوهاب شهيدی ) was an Iranian barbat player and singer born on 1914 in Meymeh (of Isfahan province).

Aeromist-Kharkiv

On 23 December 2003 at 19:29 local time, an Aeromist Antonov An-140 (registered UR-14003) crashed into a mountain near Isfahan, Iran, whilst approaching Isfahan International Airport in poor visibility conditions.

Ahmad Kamyabi Mask

Kamyabi Mask has authored and translated numerous books and essays in French and Persian published in Paris and Tehran and Isfahan.

Ahmad Khorram

Born in Isfahan, and having a bachelor degree in Roads and Structures Engineering from University of Tabriz, Khorram's previous posts in the Iranian government included the governorship of Hormozgan, Khuzestan, and Hamedan and vice ministership of the Ministry of Roads and Transportation.

Aida Mohammadkhani

Judge at Isfahan International Festival - (2002) with Baran Kosari, Reza Davood Nejad, Shahed Ahmadloo, Mehdi Bagherbeigi

Ali Panjehpour

Panjehpour was born in Isfahan the city of the most famous Iranian artists.When he was about 5 years old his father died.

Andrés Casillas de Alba

From 1957 to 1961 he attended the Ulm School of Design, Germany, and participated meanwhile in urban planning projects for Isfahan in 1958, as well as he practiced in the architecture bureau Mangiarotti e Morassutti, Milan, in 1959.

Anglo-Russian Entente

# That Britain may not seek concessions “beyond a line starting from Qasr-e Shirin, passing through Isfahan, Yezd (Yazd), Kakhk, and ending at a point on the Persian frontier at the intersection of the Russian and Afghan frontiers.”

Antonov An-140

#On 23 December 2002, an Aeromist Kharkiv An-140 carrying many of Ukraine's top aviation designers and engineers crashed into a mountainside, as it was preparing to land at Isfahan, Iran, killing all 44 on board.

Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī

He designed a canal called Zarrin Kamar in Isfahan which is one of Iran's greatest canals.

Cornelis de Bruijn

In the late April 1703, De Brujin left Moscow along with the party of an Armenian merchants from Isfahan whose name he recorded as Jacob Daviedof.

Leaving the borders of the Russian state, de Brujin arrived to Persia, where he made drawings of towns like Isfahan and Persepolis (1704–1705).

Farhad Sadeghi Amini

Farhad Sadeghi Amini (فرهاد صادقی امینی in Persian), born in Isfahan, Iran, 1963 is an Iranian painter.

Freydoon Rassouli

Rassouli (born November 18, 1943 in Isfahan, Iran) is an Iranian-Born, American abstract surrealist painter.

Golpayegan County

Golpāyegān located in Isfahan province, bordered on the south by Bakhtiari’s mountains and Khansar county, on the east by the county of Barḵhar and Meyma, on the north by the counties of Mahallat and Khomein (Kamare), and on the west by Aligudarz county (province of Lorestān).

Haj Aqa Nourollah

His book titled the dialog between the settler and the traveler which is; indeed; an intellectual vindication of a kind of religious reading of the constitutional event and is a theoretical plan in the form of discussion; considered as the rubric of “the religious democracy” and also as a chapter in the first experience of “the Islamic government of shine scholars” in Iran in parallel with Haj Aqa Nouroullah’s leadership in the constitutional event in Isfahan and Bakhtiari.

Hilya

Among other descriptive Shama'il text are the Dala'il al-Nubuwwah of Al-Bayhaqi, Tarih-i Isfahan of Abu Naeem Isfahani, Al-Wafa bi Fadha’il al-Mustafa of Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi and Al-Shifa of Qadi Ayyad are the main shemaa-il and hilya books.

John Mildenhall

A letter from Ajmer dated 20 September 1614 informs the British East India Company that an Englishman named Richard Steele arrived at Aleppo along with another Englishman Richard Newman in pursuit of one John Midnall who had tried to flee with the Company's provisions to India but was overtaken and captured at Tombaz and taken back to Isfahan.

Joseph Baillon

They were concerned about the influence of Fazlollah Zahedi, the general in charge of the Persian forces in the Isfahan area, who, their intelligence told them, was stockpiling grain, liaising with German agents, and preparing an uprising.

Judæo-Iranian languages

Judæo-Khunsari (spoken in Khansar and elsewhere in far-western Isfahan Province, in western Iran)

Jules Laurens

His biography "Nazar-Andaz" gives an account of de Hell's death at Isfahan in August 1848.

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.

Naqsh-e Jahan Square

As Isfahan was a vital stop along the Silk Road, goods from all the civilized countries of the world, spanning from Portugal in the West, to the Middle Kingdom in the East, found its ways to the hands of gifted merchants, who knew how to make the best profits out of them.

Peria

Fereydan, also called Peria, is a county in the Province of Isfahan, Iran

Qur'an Gate

It is located at the northeastern entrance of the city, on the way to Marvdasht and Isfahan, between Baba Kouhi and Chehel Maqam Mountains near Allah-O-Akbar Gorge.

Shahreza

The huge castle of Qomsheh was the latest place before occupation of the capital Isfahan in the last of Safavid ages when Afghans captured it.

Shahshahan mausoleum

After the Shahrukh Mirza's death, his nephew, Sultan Muhammad bin Baysonqor got back to Isfahan and ordered to bury the Sheykh Alaeddin's body in the Khanqah he had preached in.

Siege of Isfahan

The Afghans lacked artillery to breach the city walls and blockaded Isfahan in order to bend Shah Sultan Husayn Safavi, and the city's defenders into surrender.

Tazareh

Torzeh (ترزه‎ - Torzeh or Tarzeh), Isfahan Province

Vilashahr, Isfahan

Vilashahr or Vīlā Shahr (Persian: ويلاشهر) is a small town in Iran, located in the rural area of Isfahan (city) and in 5 Kilometre distance of Najafabad.

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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