Takht-e Soleyman

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Taxte Soleymān, is Associate in Nursing archaeologic web site in West Azarbaijan, Iran. It lies midway between Urmia and Hamadan, terribly close to the contemporary city of Takab, and four hundred kilometre (250 mi) west of Teheran. The originally fortified web site, that is found on a crater rim, was recognized as a World Heritage web site in Gregorian calendar month 2003. The stronghold includes the remains of a Zoroastrian hearth temple designed throughout the Sassanid amount and part restored throughout the Ilkhanid amount. This web site got this Semitic name once the Arab conquest.
This temple housed one the 3 “Great Fires” or “Royal Fires” that Sassanid rulers low themselves before so as to ascend the throne. The hearth at Takht-i Soleiman was referred to as ādur Wishnāsp and was dedicated to the arteshtar or human category of the Sasanid. Folks legend relates that King male monarch wont to imprison monsters within the one hundred m deep crater of the close Zendan-e Soleyman “Prison of Solomon”. Another crater within the fortification itself is full of spring water; male monarch is alleged to possess created a flowing pool that also exists nowadays.
Nevertheless, male monarch belongs to Semitic legends and thus, the traditional knowledge and somebody (Solomon’s Throne) ought to are fashioned following Moslem conquest of Persia. Once the Conquest, the Arabs wanted to destroy something Zoroastrian or Persian, as this stuff were deemed to be contrary to Islam. So as to avoid this, the Persians modified the names of the many sites and monuments to save lots of them from destruction. Another example is within the town of Pasargad, wherever they began relating the topographic point of Cyrus the nice as “Solomon’s mother’s topographic point.”
A fourth century Armenian manuscript with reference to Jesus of Nazareth and Zoroaster, and varied historians of the Moslem amount, mention this pool. The foundations of the hearth temple round the pool is attributed to it legend. Archaeologic excavations have disclosed traces of a fifth century BC occupation throughout the Achaemenid amount, furthermore as later Parthian settlements within the stronghold. Coins happiness to the reign of Sassanid kings, which of the Byzantine emperor Theodosius II (AD 408-450), have conjointly been discovered there.

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