Persepolis - İran — Persepolis - Iran

Persepolis - Iran

This vast çok büyük land is of the oldest civilization center and was the capital for Iranian kings for centuries.Splendid olağanüstü and important monuments anıt are remained from different dynasties hanedan in this province.

Ancient Parsa - homeland of the Persians and the source of the name so often given to the entire land - contains not only an enormous number of prehistoric sites with nearly 1 ,000 identified in the Marvdasht alone , but the major Achaemenian and Sassanian remains kalıntı in the country.

Persepolis is situated 58 Kilometers from Shiraz. A large bare (s.) çıplak plain düz, surrounded by mauve leylak rengi cliffs kayalık with sharp edges. It is there , in the center of the Marvdasht basin , that Cyrus the Great chose, toward the end of his reign hükümdarlık, to build under the shelter of a fold in the mountains, a palace saray worthy değerli of the Empire. It was named Parsa , but later under subsequent daha sonraki Greek influence became known as Persepolis, "The city of the Persians". The works started in 518 BC by Dariush I. The site consists oluşmak of the remains of several monumental buildings on a vast stone terrace surrounded by a brick wall.

The splendor görkem of Persepolis, however,lasted sürmek only two centuries. Its majestic heybetli audience halls and residential oturmaya elverişli palaces perished yok olmak in flames alev when Alexander the Great conquered fethetmek and looted yağmalamak Persepolis not long before the death of the last of the Achaemenian, Dariush III, in 330 BC.

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By far the largest and most magnificent building is the Apadana, begun by Darius and finished by Xerxes, that was used mainly for great receptions by the kings. Thirteen of its seventy-two columns still stand on the enormous platform to which two monumental stairways, on the north and on the east, give access. They are adorned donatmak with rows tartışma of beautifully executed infaz etmek relief showing scenes from the New Year's festival and processions geçit töreni of representatives of twenty-three subject nations of the Achaemenid Empire, with court notables and Persians and Medes, followed by soldiers and guards, their horses, and royal krala ait chariots at arabası. Delegates in their native attire kıyafet, some completely Persian in style, carry gifts as token belirti of their loyalty sadakat and as tribute hürmet to the king. These gifts include silver and gold vessels gemi and vases, weapons,woven dokuma fabric kumaş, jewelry, and animals from the delegates' own countries.

At some 13 km northwest of Persepolis are the Achaemenian royal tomb kabir. There rises a perpendicular wall of rock in which four similar tombs are cut at a considerable height from the bottom of the valley. This place is called Nakhsh-eRostam, from the Sassanian carvings below the tombs, which were thought to represent the mythical hero Rostam.

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