Astaneh-e Ashrafiyyeh
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Astaneh-e Ashrafiyyeh is a major peanut, rice and fragrant medicinal herbs producing town. It lies close to the town of Rasht and the Caspian sea. Mausoleum of Seyed Jalal od-Din Ashraf, brother of Imam Reza, as well as the tomb of Dr. Mohammad Moa'in, the Iranian lexicographer and compiler of Persian Dictionary, are located here.
- entry in the Encyclopædia Iranica