Āb-i Gargar
Āb-i Gargar (known in medieval Arabic as ''Masruqān'') is a canal in Iran. On this canal lies the medieval town of ʿAskar Mukram.Matthew S. Gordon, 'ʿAskar Mukram', ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'', 3rd edn, ed. by Kate Fleet and others (Leiden: Brill, 2007-), . References {{coord missing, Iran Canals in Iran ...
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ʿAskar Mukram
Band-i Qīr (, meaning 'bitumen dam', also Romanized as Band-e Qīr, Band-e Qir, and Band Qīr; also known as Bid Ghir) is a village in Miyan Ab Rural District, in the Central District of Shushtar County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 446, in 73 families. History: Rustam Kuwādh and ʿAskar Mukram Band-i Qīr lies on or adjacent to two earlier settlements. In the Sāsānid period, the town Rustam Kuwādh (also spelled ''Rostag Kavad'') flourished at the site. Rustam Kuwādh was destroyed during the Arab/Muslim conquests of the seventh century CE. Around this time, ʿAskar Mukram (, whose name means 'Mukram's encampment') was founded nearby, near the confluence of the canal Āb-i Gargar and the river Kārūn. Although the early history of the settlement is obscure (with the early accounts of al-Balādhurī and al-Ṭabarī conflicting), the tenth-century ''Ḥudūd al-ʿālam The ''Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam'' (, "Boundaries of the World," "Limi ...
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