Bastam ( fa, بسطام) is the site of an ancient Urartian citadel from ca. the 7th century BC, located near the village of

Bastam Bastam ( fa, بسطام, also romanized as Basṭām; also known as Busṭām and Bisṭām) is a city in and capital of the Bastam District of Shahrud County, Semnan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 7,382, in 1,997 families ...

in modern northwestern

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 ...

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20080115111215/http://www.vaa.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/Iran/Bastam/Bastam.htm Urartian cities Buildings and structures in West Azerbaijan Province Archaeological sites in Iran {{AncientNearEast-stub