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Tagsiran
115 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇮🇷 Iran · Megalith
Kharg Island (Persian: جزیره خارگ, Persian pronunciation: [xɒːrɡ]), also spelled Khark Island and often referred to as the "Forbidden Island", is a continental island of Iran in the Persian Gulf.
🇮🇷 Iran · Fortress
The Great Wall of Gorgan is a Sasanian-era defense system located near modern Gorgan in the Golestān Province of northeastern Iran, at the southeastern corner of the Caspian Sea.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Lake Hāmūn (Persian: دریاچه هامون, Daryāche-ye Hāmūn; Pashto: هامون ډنډ), or the Hamoun Oasis, is a seasonal lake and wetlands in the endorheic Sīstān Basin in the Sistan region on the…
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
The Inscription of Sargon II at Tang-i Var is carved on the flanks of the Zinanah Mt. in the Tang-i Var pass in Hawraman, Iranian Kurdistan, about 50 km southwest of Sanandaj.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Amol (Persian: آمل [ɒˈmol]; ) is a city in the Central District of Amol County, Mazandaran province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Bardak Siah Palace (Persian: کاخ بردکسیاه) is the name of the site of an ancient Achaemenid Persian palace situated in the ancient city of Temukan near the township of Borazjan in the northern part…
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Anshan (Elamite cuneiform: 𒀭𒍝𒀭 Anzan; Sumerian: 𒀭𒊓𒀭𒆠 Ansanᴷᴵ, 𒀭𒊭𒀭𒆠 Anšanᴷᴵ) modern Tall-e Malyan (Persian: تل ملیان), also Tall-i Malyan, was an Elamite and ancient Persian city.
🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex
The Hafshuye Mosque (Persian: مسجد جامع هفت شویه), also known as the Jameh Mosque of Haftshuyeh, is a former Shi'ite Friday mosque, in a ruinous condition, located in Haftshuyeh, in the province of…
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Bābā Jān Tepe (Tappa), an archeological site in north-eastern Lorestan province (34° north latitude, 47° 56' east longitude), on the southern edge of the Delfān plain at approximately 10 km from…
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Darband Cave is a Lower Paleolithic site in the Gilan Province in northern Iran, located on the north side of a deep tributary canyon of the Siahrud River, a tributary of the Sefīd-Rūd River that…
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Early Sassanid (Ardashir I–Shapur I, 224–260 CE) · Sassanid Persian (early Sasanian court)
210-m Sassanid reservoir dam (224 CE) retaining Firuzabad circular capital plain — Ardashir's desert hydraulic foundation.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Achaemenid to Sasanian · Achaemenid / Sasanian (with Roman prisoners)
390-m Karun diversion weir (5th c BCE /260 CE) — head of Shushtar mills system.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
The Farhād Tarāsh (Persian: فرهاد تراش), or Tarāsh-e Farhād, is a long smoothed rock surface on Mount Behistun in western Iran.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Kashafrud Basin (Persian: کشفرود) is an archaeological site in Iran, known for the Lower Palaeolithic artifacts collected there; these are the oldest-known evidence for human occupation of Iran.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Geoy Tepe (also Gök Tepe) is an archaeological site in northwestern Iran, about 7 kilometers south of Urmia (Reżāʾīya), Gug Tappeh.
🇮🇷 Iran · Fortress
Gerdkooh ancient hills (Persian: تپه باستان گردکوه) consists of three hills, the tallest of which is 26 m in height. Their history has been estimated to date back to the Iron Age.
🇮🇷 Iran · Necropolis
Bani Surmah is a late Sumerian necropolis, located on a plateau of Pusht-i Kuh, in the heart of central Zagros, Iran.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
The Kurit Dam (Persian: سد کریت or سد کوریت) is a decommissioned arch-gravity dam at the edge of Iran's Dasht-e Kavir. It is located 56 km away from Tabas, Iran, near the eponymous village of Kurit.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Khone-ye Div (pers خانه دیو, also known as: Khune-ye Div) – An archaeological site located in Iran, in the Razavi Khorasan province (historical land of Khorasan).
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
The Castle of Aamaj (from Arabic: قلعة آماج, (Persian: قلعه آماج), Aamaj castle is one of the most significant examples for trench-enclosed, fortified structures in the Kukherd District, Hormozgan province in south Iran.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Khosrow parviz hunting ground (Persian:شکارگاه خسرو پرویز) or Tape-ye-moradhasel or Morad-Hassel Tepe (Persian:تپه مرادحاصل) is an ancient Sasanid complex in the north of Kermanshah city in western Iran.
