- Capitals of Persia
Regional and Imperial capitals of Persia in history:
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Ardabil ,Safavid
*Babylon ,Achaemenid era
*Baghdad , caliphates,Jalayerid , Buwayhid
*Balkh , i.e. Bactria
*Bukhara , Taherid dynasty, Samanid
*Ctesiphon , a.k.a al-Mada'in,Sassanid era
*Damghan ,Parthian era
*Esfahan ,Safavid , Ziyarid, Seljuq
*Firouzabad ,Sassanid era
*Ghazni , Ghaznavid era
*Hamedan or ("Ecbatana "), Median Empire,Achaemenid era
*Herat ,Kara Koyunlu
*Kerman , Zand dynasty
*Kunya Urgench , (گُرگانج) of the Khwarazmid era
*Maragheh , Ilkhanid
*Mashad ,Afshar id
*Merv , capital duringal-Mamun 's caliphate, and Taherid era
*Neyshabur , Ilkhanid, Seljuq, Taherid eras
*Nisa, Turkmenistan , capital ofParthian era
*Persepolis ,Achaemenid
*Qazvin , earlySafavid
*Samarkand , Tamerlane
*Shahrisabz , Sheybanid
*Shiraz ,Zand dynasty , Buwayhid
*Susa ,Achaemenid and Elamite era
*Tabriz , Ilkhanid, Safavid
*Tehran , 1779-current
*Zaranj , Saffarid dynastyee also
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List of historical capitals of China
*Greater Iran
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