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  Tehran Encyclopedia Information @ Angel.am   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The city is dotted with historic Tajrish, Damavand, Live webcams of Tehran and Hashtgerd National Museum of Iran.
Tekyehs built a Kamraniyeh and a wall around the city, but it somewhat fell out of favour after Tupkhane turned sick when he was passing the city to go to a war with the Imam Hossein University.
Cities along the Silk Road, whom "Jordan Avenue" in Tehran is named after, was also one of the founding pioneers of the The Research Institute of The Petroleum Industry.
www.angel.am /encyclopedia/Tehran   (3410 words)

  
 Wikipedia search result
Tehran (IPA: [tʰehˈɾɒn]; Persian: تهران Tehrān), population (as of 2005) 7,314,000 (metropolitan: 12,151,000), and a land area of 658 square kilometers (254 sq mi), is the capital city of Iran (Persia) and the center of Tehran Province.
Tehran is a sprawling city at the foot of the Alborz mountain range with an immense network of highways unparalleled in western Asia.
Tahmasp I built a bazaar and a wall around the city, but it somewhat fell out of favour after Abbas I turned sick when he was passing the city to go to a war with the Uzbeks.
feedbus.com /wikis/wikipedia.php?title=Tehran   (3322 words)

  
 Alavi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The new town of Baharestan is situated 15 km southeast of Isfahan and north of Lashtar mountains along Isfahan-Shiraz Road.
Baharestan is planned to accommodate 100,000 people in about 3,000 hectares in the first development phase and 350,000 people in the long-term.
At the moment, Baharestan is one of the most attractive new towns of the country housing a large population.
www.icic.gov.ir /English/Ministry/NewTown/baharestan/Ebaharestan.htm   (238 words)

  
 Isfahan, Iran
The city is geographically located at 51 degree 29 minutes eastern longitute and 32 degree 38 minutes northern latitude, in the lush Zayandeh-Rud plain, at the foothills of the Zagros mountain range.
In 1387, the city was conquered in a bloody war with Tamerlane.
The cities of Najaf-abad, Khaneh Isfahan, Khomeini-shahr, Shahin-shahr, Zarrin-shahr, and Fulad-e Mobarakeh all constitute the metropolitan city of Isfahan.
creekin.net /c4362-n87-isfahan-iran.html   (1110 words)

  
 Tehran Summary
The city of Tehran, capital of Iran, is located in the north-central part of the country at the foothills of the Elburz Mountains.
The city underwent another architectural facelift in the early 1950s that was influenced by Iranians who had studied abroad, particularly in the United States.
The city is dotted with mosques, and there are a number of churches and synagogues.
www.bookrags.com /Tehran   (3025 words)

  
 Ahvaz, Iran
The city replaced Susa, the ancient capital of Susiana, as the capital of what was then called Xuzestan.
The city had two sections; the nobles of the city lived in one part while the other was inhabited by merchants (cf.
Oil was found near Ahvaz in the early 20th century, and the city once again grew and prospered as a result of this newfound wealth.
creekin.net /c4334-n87-ahvaz-iran.html   (900 words)

  
 Province of Tehran - WikIran
The province first gained prominance when the city Tehran was claimed the capital by the Qajar dynasty in 1778.
Absard, Andishe, Baghershahr, Baghestan, Boumehen, Chahardangeh, Damavand, Eshtehard, Eslamshahr, Ferdowsieh, Firouzkouh, Garmdarreh, Gharchak, Ghods, Golestan, Shahriar, Hashtgerd, Hashtgerd New City, Javadabad, Hassan Abad, Kahrizak, Kamalshahr, Karaj, Kilan, Lavasan, Mahdasht, Malard, Meshkindasht, Mohammadshahr, Nasimshahr, Nazarabad, Owshan Fasham Meygoun, Pakdasht, Pardis, Pishva, Robat Karim, Roudehen, Sabasharh, Safadasht, Shahedshahr, Shahriar, Sharifabad, Tehran, Vahidieh, Varamin,
However, the city of Tehran rose to become the larger city and capital of Iran by 1778, and since then has been the political, cultural, economical, and commercial nucleus of Iran.
www.wikiran.org /w/index.php?title=Tehran_(province)   (1139 words)

  
 Tehran - WikIran
Tehran is a sprawling city sitting at the foot of the Alborz mountain range with a saturated network of highways unparalleled in western Asia.
Tahmasp I built a bazaar and a wall around the city, but it somewhat fell out of favour after Abbas I turned ill when he was passing by the city to go to war with the Uzbeks.
The city also is home to a large number of royal palaces that date back to the Qajar 18th century.
www.wikiran.org /w/index.php?title=Tehran   (2634 words)

  
 List of planned cities at AllExperts
This is a list of planned cities (sometimes known as planned communities or new towns) by country.
Additions to this list should be cities whose overall form (as opposed to individual neighborhoods or expansions) has been determined in large part in advance on a drawing board, or which were planned to a degree which is unusual for their time and place.
It is modelled on Italian renaissance theories of the 'ideal city' and built by the architect Bernardo Morando.
en.allexperts.com /e/l/li/list_of_planned_cities.htm   (507 words)

  
 SalamIran - Province of Tehran
Tehran’s development as an independent city, however, began in the 18th century, when it was finally made Iran’s capital by Agha Mohammad Khan, the first of the Qajars impressed with Tehran, in 1795, because of its enjoying special importance from the geographical, political, and economical points of view.
The plain surrounding the city is still being irrigated to some extent, by the ancient Iranian-type of subterranean canals known as the qanats.
Visited by Alexander, fortified by the Parthians, the birthplace of Harun or-Rashid, a flourishing city of the Seljuk Empire and perhaps the finest source for early Islamic pottery, Rey was utterly destroyed by the Mongols in 1220 AD and its populations dispersed to Varamin, Saveh, and elsewhere.
www.salamiran.org /CT/provinces/tehran.html   (10940 words)

  
 Civil Disobedience movement of Iran
Clashes are becoming more violent in the rebellious city of Esfahan and number of masked youth are fighting with the regime's forces in the "Dast Guerd" and...
Reports from main Iranian cities, such as, Tehran, Esfahan, Tabriz and Shiraz are stating about the preparation by thousands of Iranians to commemorate the 96th anniversary of the banned "Constitutional Revolution".
The most violent clashes of yesterday evening happened in the western cities of Iran, such as, Bookan, Sannandaj, Mahabad and Saghez, where, angry crowd retaliated to the aggression of the regime’s forces by attacking them and even destroying several of their vehicles by the use of Molotov Coktail and Hand Made grenades.
www.yaqoot.com /_misc/civil/civil.htm   (4368 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The official City of Tehran website says that "Tehran" comes from the Persian words "Tah" meaning "end or bottom" and "Ran" meaning " [1] slope"—literally, bottom of the mountain slope.
Tehran county borders Shemiranat county to the north, Damavand county to the east, Eslamshahr, Pakdasht, and Ray counties to the south, and Karaj and Shahriar counties to the west.
Tehran is served by Mehrabad International Airport, the old airport which doubles as a military base located in the western part of the city, and Imam Khomeini International Airport, 50 kilometers (31 mi) south, which handles flights from the Persian Gulf but which will eventually handle all international flights.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Tehran   (3025 words)

  
 Teheran
But those landing at the new Imam Khomeini airport (located on a tranquil piece of desert between the capital and the holy city of Ghom) will pass the massive minarets of the still-unfinished structure housing the remains of the founder of the 1979 revolution on the highway linking the airport to Tehran.
The Milad tower complex in the NW of the city which upon completion in 2007 will rank as the Mid-East's highest (and the world's fourth highest) tower, and include a five-star hotel and revolving restaurant, is soon to usurp the aforementioned monuments as Tehran's most impressive.
Like most Mid-Eastern cities Tehran's bazaar (supposedly the world's biggest) is a good place to begin one's sightseeing schedule with--it looks somewhat unassuming from the outside, but once inside it's pretty much a labyrinth city onto itself, with countless sections specializing in a single item (gold, garments, household appliances, carpets, etc).
www.romartraveler.com /RomarPages/Teheran.html   (1647 words)

  
 Rugs weaving groups P5
Tabriz masterworkshop rugs are sometimes made entirely in silk, but more often employ woolen piles, which may be accentuated with silk or a combination of metallic thread and silk.
City in northern India producing reasonably good quality rugs in a range of mainly Persian designs, very similar to those made in the nearby town of jaipur.
Made in and around the city of Arak, formerly Sultanabad, in west central Persia, Arak rugs are much more coarsely knotted than the rugs of their illustrious neighbors, Sarough.
www.bijansorientalrug.com /html/rugs_weaving_groups_p5.html   (1782 words)

  
 Iran Daily - Arts & Culture - 09/06/05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
He said that authorities of the Majlis museum are not permitted to open the packages to conduct maintenance works until a gallery is found to display the artifacts and paintings.
Abhari recalled that a pledge was given to provide the museum with a hall in the parliament’s Baharestan building and Majlis speaker Gholamali Haddad Adel ordered ceding two buildings of Aziziyeh and former library building in Baharestan to the Majlis Library and Museum.
Milani told ISNA that since the film was earlier screened in that city it was not eligible for the competition section, which features only films which premiers in the event.
www.iran-daily.com /1384/2369/html/art.htm   (1600 words)

  
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Tehran was well known as a village in the 9th century, but was less well-known than the city of Rages which was flourishing nearby in the pre-Mongol era.
The city is later mentioned in Hamdollah Mostowfi's Nezhat ol-Gholoob (written in 1340) as a famous village.
No one knows for sure how the city got its name, but one accepted explanation is that Tehran means "a warm place", as opposed to "a cool place", called Shemiran - a cooler district in northern Tehran.
toefllearning.blogfa.com /post-30.aspx   (2341 words)

  
 Sasanian Monument in Jahrom under Threat as the Result of Poor Restorations - CAIS Archaeological & Cultural News ...
The monument is located inside the city, which is surrounded by residential houses.
After the fall of the Sasanian dynasty and advent of Islam in Iran, Iranians had to disguise their religious buildings in order to protect them from destruction, and the best solution was to associate them with the new invading faith.
Therefore, most probably this building is one of those Zoroastrian shrines in disguise, especially when this part of the Fars province was one of the major centres of Zoroastrianism after the invasion.
www.cais-soas.com /News/2006/September2006/23-09-sasanian.htm   (395 words)

  
 introduction
The Zayandeh-Rood river which runs in close vicinity to Baharestan new town, provides an excellent natural route and a major rest and recreational facility, which coupled with the two other roads joins the two cities of Esfahan and Baharestan together.
- To house and accommodate the overspilled population of Shiraz city, Marvdasht and Zarghan
Here city streets serve as main frames and service facilities are centralized in each residential district center.
www.ntoir.gov.ir /english/new.asp   (1528 words)

  
 TA City: The Tehran Metro
The very first organized studies on the establishment of a modern city railway go back to 1969, when some international companies such as SOFTRU, Yashio Engineering Co., and Freeman Consulting Co. were invited to offer their possible solutions for Tehran’s transportation problems.
Between 1969-1971 these companies conducted field studies that seemed to agree on a singular answer for reducing the city’s never-sweet traffic jams.
What they advised in the first phase of the project was to construct 4 routs for a total of 64 km that could carry Tehranis to the four corners of the city.
www.tehranavenue.com /old/at_metro.htm   (1263 words)

  
 Tehran travel guide - Wikitravel
Tehran is a cosmopolitan city, with great museums, and restaurants, friendly people and the chance to watch the daily life of liberal Tehranis as they challenge, and often ignore, post-Revolution restrictions means it deserves at least a few days of your Iranian itinerary.
Almost every city and far-flung village in Iran has bus services to Tehran, as evidenced by the hundreds of buses that pour in and out of the capital each day.
Tehran's new metro system [1] is comprised of three lines that will whisk you quickly from one end of the city to the other without having to deal with the noise, pollution and chaos of Tehrani traffic.
wikitravel.org /en/Tehran   (3456 words)

  
 Consiglio Nazionale della Resistenza Iraniana - Commissione degli Affari Esteri
Teachers in Tehran and across Iranian towns and cities continue their protests and strikes because of harsh living conditions and low salaries, despite pressure by the mullahs' regime.
The agents also arrested and confiscated the cameras of 10 students who were demonstrating in solidarity with the teachers.
Yesterday more than 1,500 teachers and faculty staff of learning institutions in the city of Dezful gathered outside the provincial headquarters of the Education Ministry, demanding authorities see to their harsh work conditions.
www.ncr-iran.org /it/content/view/40/69   (314 words)

  
 Jami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
He was born in a village near Jam but a few years after his birth, his family immigrated to cultural city of Herat and he could study Peripateticism, mathematics, Arabic literature, natural sciences and Islamic knowledge at Nezamieh University of Herat.
After that he went to Samarkand city, the important scientific center in the Islamic World and he could complete his studies there.
Among of them are: Divanha-ye Seganeh (Triplet Divans), the collection of Haft Owrang (Seven Thrones), Baharestan (Spring Land), Nafahat-ol-Ons and etc.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/j/ja/jami.html   (146 words)

  
 Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran
In addition, thousands of Iranians are expected to come into streets and squares of most Iranian cities or their roof tops and to condemn the Islamic regime in another show of rejection of the theocracy.
In all Iranian streets and squares, especially in the Enghelab, Amir Abad, Vali e Asr, Azadi, Baharestan, Narmak, Tehran Pars and Madar areas of the Iranian capital.
In main squares of provincial cities and at the Laleh Park of the Capital.
daneshjoo.org /article/publish/cat_index_10.shtml   (1954 words)

  
 PMOI Statement 07/14/99   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Demonstrators angered by the clerical regime's repressive forces' firing on the crowds attacked Baharestan police station during clashes with Revolutionary Guards.
Demonstrators responded to the security forces' firing on the crowd and volleys of tear gas canisters by throwing petrol bombs.
As demonstrations continued in Tehran, people in Baghestan and Shahin-Villa areas of the city of Karaj (40 km west of Tehran) began to demonstrate against the regime and chant slogans against clerical leaders at 11 pm.
www.iran-e-azad.org /english/pmoi/990714.html   (472 words)

  
 National Geoscience Database Of IRAN - State: Esfahan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Western part of this province has a semi humid cold climate while there is a desert climate prevailing around Khur and Anarak cities.
This province being located in central part of Iran and having good connection roads with other province is one of very important industrial poles of Iran.
City: [Abrisham] [Abu zeyd Abad] [Afus] [Alavicheh] [Anarak] [Aran va Bidgol] [Ardestan] [Asgaran] [Badrud] [Baharan Shahr]..........
www.ngdir.ir /States/StateDetail.asp?PID=7   (367 words)

  
 Citizen Smash - The Indepundit
Reports are stating brutal attacks of the regime's forces against demonstrators who have gathered in the historic "Baharestan" square of Tehran.
Clashes have spread to areas around "Baharestan" as the neighboring areas are full of demonstrators who echoed the banned National Anthem and have started to shout slogans.
In the city of Esfahan, government forces opened fire on the demonstrators.
www.lt-smash.us /archives/001786.html   (1094 words)

  
 Worker-communist Party of Iran - Office of International Relations
The policy of expelling immigrant workers has been on the agenda of the Islamic regime for some time now.
In hardly any other part of the world do fascists dare so openly and shamelessly to call for protest actions against the employment of immigrant workers.
* On May 1, 2000, slogans against Afghan workers and immigrants were part of the official slogans of their meetings, for instance in the Labour House meeting in Baharestan Square in Tehran, which incidentally, were rejected by a considerable section of the participants.
www.wpiran.org /Publications/asghar_ILO.htm   (1057 words)

  
 Maskansazancz
Aiming at the managing, preparing and the execution of the urban development and architectural projects especially in the aging and dilapidated areas, Housing Development & Construction Co. has started its activities in Esfahan city since 1992.
Urban reconstruction and restoration and preparing and execution of the reconditioning projects.
This complex including over 1700 dwelling units with an infrastructure area of 140000 square meters in 30 hectares of landscaping, 95 blocks of apartments and villas and more than 100 commercial units and 100 administrative units is in process of construction.
www.maskansazancz.com /english   (231 words)

  
 NCRI Statement 05/01/99a   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Thousands of workers staged a demonstration and a march in Tehran on May Day, despite the fact that Khatami's Interior Ministry had banned any rallies and marches by workers on this occasion.
The rally began in Tehran's Baharestan square as large groups of people joined the workers and marched toward the mullahs' Majlis.
In addition to Tehran, other cities across the country were the scenes of demonstrations and clashes between workers and the regime's suppressive forces.
www.iran-e-azad.org /english/ncr/990501a.html   (260 words)

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