Capitals of Persia
Regional and Imperial capitals of Persia (Iran):
- Anshan; early Achaemenid era
- Ardabil; early Safavid era
- Babylon; Achaemenid era
- Baghdad; caliphates, Jalayerid, Buyid
- Bukhara; Taherid dynasty, Samanid
- Ctesiphon; Parthian, Sassanid era
- Damghan; Parthian era
- Firouzabad; Sassanid era
- Isfahan; Seljuk, Safavid era
- Hamedan or ("Ecbatana"); Median Empire, Achaemenid era, Seljuks (Greater and Iraq Seljuks)
- Kunya Urgench; early Khwarezmid era
- Maragheh; Ilkhanid
- Mashad; Afsharid
- Merv; capital during al-Mamun's caliphate, and Taherid era
- Nishapur; Ilkhanid, Seljuq, Taherid eras
- Nisa, Turkmenistan; periodical capital of the Parthian era
- Pasargadae; Achaemenid
- Persepolis; Achaemenid
- Rey; Median
- Qazvin; early Safavid era
- Samarkand; Khwarazmid, Timurid era
- Shiraz; Buyid dynasty, Zand dynasty
- Susa; Achaemenid, Parthian era
- Tabriz; Ilkhanid, Khwarezmid, Safavid
- Tehran; 1796–present
See also
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