Capitals of Persia
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Regional and Imperial capitals of Persia in history:
- Ardabil, Safavid
- Babylon, Achaemenid era
- Baghdad, caliphates, Jalayerid, Buwayhid
- Balkh, i.e. Bactria
- Bukhara, Taherid dynasty, Samanid
- Ctesiphon, a.k.a al-Mada'in, Sassanid era
- Damghan, Parthian era
- Esfahan, Safavid, Ziyarid, Seljuq
- Firouzabad, Sassanid era
- Ghazni, Ghaznavid era
- Hamedan or ("Ecbatana"), Median Empire, Achaemenid era
- Herat, Kara Koyunlu
- Kerman, Zand dynasty
- Kunya Urgench, (گُرگانج) of the Khwarazmid era
- Maragheh, Ilkhanid
- Mashad, Afsharid
- Merv, capital during al-Mamun's caliphate, and Taherid era
- Neyshabur, Ilkhanid, Seljuq, Taherid eras
- Nisa, Turkmenistan, capital of Parthian era
- Persepolis, Achaemenid
- Qazvin, early Safavid
- Samarkand, Tamerlane
- Shahrisabz, Sheybanid
- Shiraz, Zand dynasty, Buwayhid
- Susa, Achaemenid and Elamite era
- Tabriz, Ilkhanid, Safavid
- Tehran, 1779-current
- Zaranj, Saffarid dynasty
