Qaṣr-i Abu Naṣr ( fa, قصر ابونصر, Abu-Naṣr Palace), Qasre Abunasr, or Takht-e Sulayman ( fa, تخت سلیمان, Throne of Solomon) is the site of an ancient settlement situated in city of

Shiraz Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the population of the city was 1,565,572 p ...

in the Fars province of

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. According to archaeological studies the fortress was built during the Parthian period, and was an important and strategic location in the Sassanid Empire. Archaeologists have found various artifacts and coins belonging to various historical periods, such as the

Achaemenid The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire (; peo, 𐎧𐏁𐏂, , ), also called the First Persian Empire, was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC. Based in Western Asia, it was contemporarily the largest emp ...

, Seleucid Empire, Parthian and

Sassanid The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred to by historians as the Neo-Persian Empire, was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th centuries AD. Named ...

. This site is recorded in an Iranian historical list from 1932 as "Takht e Sulayman" ( Throne of Solomon). When Muslims invaded Iran, and conquered it, they called this palace "Father of Victory" (Qaṣr-i-Abu Naṣr) قصر ابونصر

Name of Shiraz

One of the palaces in this site was named

, from which the city derives its name.

Notes

References

*Wilkinson, C.K., 1965. The Achaemenian Remains at Qaṣr-i-Abu Naṣr. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 24(4): 341-345. *Frye, R.N., 1973. Sasanian Remains from Qasr-i Abu Nasr: Seals, Sealings, and Coins. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. *Whitcomb, D., 1984. Qasr-i Abu Nasr and the ersianGulf. Arabie Orientale, Mésopotamie at Iran Méridional de l’âge du Fer an début de la Période Islamique. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations, pp.331-37. *Whitcomb, D.S., 1985. Before the Roses and Nightingales: Excavations at Qasr-i Abu Nasr, Old Shiraz. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. *Henkelman. Wouter F.M., Jones, Charles E., Stolper, Matthew W. 2006. Achaemenid Elamite Administrative Tablets, 2: The Qasr-i Abu Nasr Tablet. ARTA 2006.003 *Simpson, S.J., 2007. Pottering around Persepolis: Observations on Early European Visitors to the Site. Christopher Tuplin (ed.) Persian Responses: Political and Cultural Interaction With(in) the Achaemenid Empire, Swansea: The University of Wales Press pp.343-356. *Miri, N., 2009. Historical Geography of Fars during the Sasanian Period. e-Sasanika 6.

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