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Historic Sites Attractions In Kerman Province

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Kerman Province is the largest province of the 31 provinces of Iran. Kerman is in the southeast of Iran with its administrative center in the city of Kerman. In 2014 it was placed in Region 5. Mentioned in ancient times as the Achamenid satrapy of Carmania, it is the first-largest province of Iran with an area of 183,285 km2 , that encompasses nearly 11 percent of the land area of Iran. The population of the province is about 3 million .
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  • 1. Arg-e Bam Bam
    The Arg-e Bam is the largest adobe building in the world, located in Bam, a city in Kerman Province of southeastern Iran. It is listed by UNESCO as part of the World Heritage Site Bam and its Cultural Landscape. The origin of this enormous citadel on the Silk Road can be traced back to the Achaemenid Empire and even beyond. The heyday of the citadel was from the seventh to eleventh centuries, being at the crossroads of important trade routes and known for the production of silk and cotton garments.The entire building was a large fortress containing the citadel, but because of the impressive look of the citadel, which forms the highest point, the entire fortress is named the Bam Citadel. On December 26, 2003, the Citadel was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake, along with much of t...
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  • 3. Qal'eh Doktar Kerman
    Qal'eh Dokhtar, Ghale Dokhtar , Dezh Dokhtar , is a castle made by Ardashir I, in present-day Fars, Iran, in 209 AD. It is located on a mountain slope near the Firouzabad-Kavar road.The name of the castle implies it was dedicated to the Goddess Anahita, to whom the term Maiden refers. After capturing Isfahan and Kerman from the Parthians, Ardashir built the city of Gur near the castle in Pirouzabad, making it his capital. After defeating Ardavan V , the Parthian king in a great battle in 224 AD, he built the Palace of Ardashir nearby the Dezh Dokhtar structure. Ardashir's grandfather was a prominent priest of the Goddess Anahita at the nearby temple of Darabgird, City of Darius. The castle is built on a high bluff which overlooks the river and roadway running south from Fars. The entrance ...
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  • 4. Konar Sandal Jiroft
    Konar Sandal is a Bronze Age archaeological site, situated just south of Jiroft, Kermān Province, Iran. It consists of two mounds a few kilometers apart, called Konar Sandal A and B with a height of 13 and 21 meters, respectively. At Konar Sandal B, a two-story, windowed citadel with a base of close to 13.5 hectares was found. Also found in Konar Sandal were tablets with scripts of unknown nature. The site is associated with the hypothesized Jiroft culture, a 3rd millennium BC culture postulated on the basis of a collection of artifacts confiscated in 2001, criticized for conjecture about material not found in secure archaeological contexts and probably including forgeries. So the excavation of Konar Sandal is important in discovering artefacts in context. Yousef Majidzadeh, head of the a...
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