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Tagssasanian
13 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works
Sasanian to Early Abbasid (550–937 CE) · Sasanian Persian (Khosrow I) with Islamic early maintenance
6th-c. Sasanian 120-km 30-m flood-canal protecting Ctesiphon, intake at Dur-Kurigalzu 240-m regulator, 30k ha Diyala.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sasanian (Shapur I–II) – UNESCO 1315 ensemble · Sasanian with Roman engineer captives
Sasanian Gargar diversion dam (210 m, 9 slots) feeding 47-km handmade canal watering Mianab plain.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sasanian to Early Islamic · Sasanian / Early Islamic Khorasan
35-km double-branch Sasanian qanat (500–800 CE) — 70-m mother well, 45 L/s to Ferdows oasis.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sassanian (Shapur I) on Achaemenid · Sassanian Persian with Roman POW labour
Northern Shushtar (65 m, 32°03′N 48°51′E 32.05,48.85) hydraulic extension of UNESCO 1315 Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System (1315): Band-e Gar (Gar Dam) and Dariun Great Weir interconnect canal…
🇮🇷 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 · Hydraulic works
Achaemenid core 500 BCE to Sasanian 450 CE (extension) to present · Yazdi Zarch piedmont oasis (Kavir piedmont)
North Zarch extension 8.2 km with 88 shafts mother 34 m, 6 badgir towers 18 L/s: Sasanian 450 CE graft onto 500 BCE core.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sasanian (Shapur I post-Edessa 260) · Sasanian with Roman prisoner engineers
Gargar canal: 12-km Sasanian 260 CE cliff canal diverting Karun through Shushtar mills, UNESCO 1315.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sasanian to Kakuyid (450 CE, repaired 1050 CE) · Sasanian Zagros (Eqlid terrace farmers)
Tang-e Boraq: 420-m Sasanian 450 CE cliff aqueduct in 85-m Zagros gorge, Eqlid 30.55N 52.32E.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sasanian (Shapur I–II) · Sasanian Persian
180-m Sasanian gravity dam (240–380 CE) on Minab tributary — 300,000 m³ for Minab palms.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Hellenistic-Parthian-Roman · Seleucid → Parthian → Roman
Macedonian-Euphrates cliff city (303 BCE–256 CE) called 'Pompeii of the Desert' — garrison of Parthian-Roman frontier buried under a Roman siege embankment that preserved the world's earliest…
🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex
Sasanian Empire 224–651 CE (peak 5th–7th century) → Ilkhanid 13th century reuse · Sasanian Zoroastrian → Ilkhanid Mongol Islamic palace phase
Sasanian Great Fire temple on a 120 m artesian lake — shahs' coronation sanctuary, later Ilkhanid palace.
🇷🇺 Russia · Ancient city
Caucasian Albania to Sasanian to Islamic (c.100 BCE–19th c.; peak Sasanian 6th c.) · Caucasian Albanian → Sasanian Persian → Khazar → Arab → Shirvanshah → Russian
Sasanian 3.6 km double-wall Caspian Gates with Naryn-Kala citadel sealing Caucasus passage.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Kushan to Sasanian (1st–5th century CE) · Kushan → Sasanian Kidarites
Kushan–Sasanian delta city in Surkhandarya — 15 ha shahristan mapped by multispectral remote sensing.
