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	Iranian Cities: Damghan
		Damghan is sitting still for many years like a seaport without shore at the skirts of the scorching desert and even refused to beg rain from heaven.
		During the reign of Tirdates 1 (Arcase II), Damghan was the capital of the Parthian Empire in Iran.
		This is one of the permanent springs in Damghan, 30 km north of the city.
	www.iranchamber.com /cities/damghan/damghan.php (1135 words)

	Damghan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Damghan is a city of Iran, in Semnan Province, 342 km.
		Damghan was an important city in the middle ages, but only the Tari-khaneh ruined mosque with a number of massive columns and some fine wood carvings and two minarets of the 11th century remains of that period.
		Damghan was destroyed by the Afghans in 1723.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Damghan (1431 words)

	Damghan - LoveToKnow 1911
		DAMGHAN, a town of Persia in the province of Semnan va Damghan, 216 m.
		Damghan was an important city in the middle ages, but only a ruined mosque with a number of massive columns and some fine wood carvings and two minarets of the 11th century remain of that period.
		On an eminence in the western part of the city are the ruins of a large square citadel with a small whitewashed building, called Molud Khaneh (the house of birth), in which Fath Ali Shah was born (1772).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Damghan (191 words)

	DAMGHAN Iran
		Damghan, in the west of Semnan and some 330 kilometers to the east of Tehran, is a town with a great history.
		With an elevation of 1170 meters from the sea level, it accommodates a population of 75,000 inhabitants in an area of 13,080 square kilometers.
		The city, as well as the district of Damghan are surrounded by the mountain range of Alborz on the north, and by the Salty Desert of the center of Iran on all other limits.
	www.irantour.org /Iran/city/DAMGHAN.html (500 words)

	Damghan
		Town in northern Iran with 50,000 inhabitants (2003 estimate), situated on a large, barren gravel plain southeast of the Alborz Mountains, at en elevation of 1,200 metres above sea level.
		Damghan is a farily small region centre, where pistachios and almonds are among the most important products.
		Damghan's main landmark is also probably the oldest surviving mosque of Iran, the Tarik Khaneh, is from about 760.
	i-cias.com /e.o/damghan.htm (79 words)

	Damghan
		Town in northern Iran with 50,000 inhabitants (2003 estimate), situated on a large, barren gravel plain southeast of the Alborz Mountains, at en elevation of 1,200 metres above sea level.
		Damghan is a farily small region centre, where pistachios and almonds are among the most important products.
		Damghan's main landmark is also probably the oldest surviving mosque of Iran, the Tarik Khaneh, is from about 760.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/damghan.htm (79 words)

	Damghan - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)©
		Damghan - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)©
		Abstract: Damghan, a city with 7,000 years history, is located 360 km northeast of Tehran in Semnan Province.
		Despite 7,000 years history Damghan, located east of Iran, has been forgotten beneath desert sand duns, whilst it is one of the most ancient urban metropolis in the Iranian plateau and hides many secrets covered by sands.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Geography/damghan.htm (1263 words)

	Damghan - Iran Special Weapons Facilities
		Damghan, some 375 miles to the southwest of Mashad, is among other things famous for its pistachios.
		Damghan, which is located in the Parthian district of Traxiana -- later known as Khorasan -- has been occupied since prehistoric times and was the original capital of the ancient province of Qumis.
		Damghan is said to be Iran's primary chemical weapons production facility, along with the facilities located at Esfahan, Parchin and Qazvin.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/iran/damghan.htm (328 words)

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		Damghan University of Basic Sciences originally was founded in 1988 and started its educational operation in 1992.
		The university was founded by dedicated citizens of Damghan under the leadership of Late Professor Mohammad Masud Mansouri, a lover of Damghan, well oriented with western education.
		A strong interaction between the university and the people of Damghan has been established under the present leadership that contributing to development of student body, state of art chemistry, physic and language laboratories.
	www.dubs.ac.ir /About_en.htm (142 words)

	THE PARTHO-SASSANIAN NORTHEAST FRONTIER: SETTLEMENT IN THE DAMGHAN PLAIN, IRAN
		Settlement distribution maps record a changing pattern of settlement and landscape modification with which to consider the role of Damghan in northeastern Iran and its implication for larger sociopolitical units, the Parthian and Sassanian empires, impinging on this area.
		Contraction of settlement and movement away from major routes and major land and water resources is present in Damghan and elsewhere in northeast Iran in the 6th - 7th centuries AD, a pattern seen in central Asia during the fourth and fifth centuries AD.
		These trends suggest that Damghan and northeast Iran played a changing role in a transitional zone between Near Eastern and central Asian polities between 250 BC and AD 642, reflecting the transformation of early empires of the ancient world into developed empires of the middle ages.
	repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI8208047 (406 words)

	Damghan to Neishabur, Iran
		These towers, which are made of heads, are built of the heads of a race of people called ‘white Tartars,’ natives of a country between Turkey and Syria.
		When Timur Beg departed from Sebastria, and marched towards Damascus, he encountered these people, fought, and conquered them; taking many prisoners, and sending them to settle at Damghan, which was thinly populated.
		When they arrived there, they collected together, and lived in the plains, as was their custom.
	www.gardenvisit.com /travel/clavijo/damghantoneishabur.htm (401 words)

	iran-lifestyles-semnan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Later during the sixth century A.D. the city of Bostam was founded and the Tarikhaneh Mosque in Damghan was built in the ninth century A.D. Cheshmeh Ali in Damghan and Darband Cave which possesses the highest stalagmite columns, are popular sightseeing spots in the province.
		The Chehel Dokhtaran Tower in Damghan, a round brick tower west of Damghan is 15 meters high and is capped with a conical dome.
		By March 20, 1999 the number of industrial contracts concluded in the industrial townships in the province were 569 in Semnan, 13 in Damghan, 69 in Shahrud, 3 in Garmsar and 116 in Ayvanaki.
	www3.estart.com /iran/lifestyles/semnan.html (1552 words)

	About IRAN
		With an area of 95815 square kilometers, the Province of Semnan is located to the east of the province of Tehran.
		The old city of Damghan has very cold weather in the Winter because of the wintry winds which come from the north, and a temperate summer, for the same reason.
		Damghan is located 335 kilometers far from Tehran, the national capital.
	www.iccim.org /English/Iran/12/index.htm (2193 words)

	Province of Semnan - WikIran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The former offers a scope for recreational activities as well as being a source for minerals, whereas the latter encompasses some ancient cities of Iran as one of the capitals of the Parthian empire was located here.
		Excavations at Teppe Hisar (Persian: تپه حصار) near Damghan reveal settlements in the area as early as the 4-5th millenia BCE.
		The Bastami Complex in the town of Bastam contains the shrine of Mohammad ibn Jafar Sadiq, the tomb of Bayazid Bastami, the Iwan of Öljeitü, the tomb of Mahmud Ghazan, the Congregation Mosque, the tower of Burj-i Kashaneh, and the Shahrukhiya seminary, bath, and Zurkhaneh, dating from before the Seljuki era, at the earliest.
	www.wikiran.org /w/index.php?title=Semnan_(province) (538 words)

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		Damghan a également été identifiée comme le site probable de Hécatompylos, la «ville aux cent portes», centre hellénistique sous les Séleucides (330-250 av.
		Comme Semnan, Damghan a beaucoup souffert des tremblements de terre et des invasions des peuples d'Asie centrale.
		A 70 km à l'est de Damghan, se trouve la petite ville de Bastam où l'on visitera le complexe du mausolée du Cheikh Bayazid-é Bastami (deux mosquées, une tour funéraire, deux mausolées et les restes d'une citadelle), un célèbre mystique du 9 e siècle.
	www.persevoyages.com /iran.Damghan.fr.htm (380 words)

	Experts preparing study plan for Iran’s first mosque
		The team got the idea to draft the plan after a section of the mosque was discovered during a restoration project on its exterior.
		“It is very important for the study whether Damghan is a pre-Islamic city or not, so we have to research the history of the city in the first step,” she explained.
		No comprehensive study has been carried out on the mosque and the city since the topographic and archaeological studies of French architect Andre Godard in the 1930s, lamented Sheibani, adding that she hopes the study plan provides the comprehensive information on the mosque and the city which has been lacking.
	www.mehrnews.ir /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=386059 (263 words)

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