Ardakan
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| Province : | Yazd | ||
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 19 ′ N , 54 ° 1 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 1035 m | ||
| Residents : | 51,349 (2006) | ||
| Area code : | 352722 | ||
| Time zone : | UTC +3: 30 | ||
| Website: | www.ardakan.com | ||
Ardakan ( Persian اردکان, also: Ardekan) is a city in the Iranian province of Yazd .
geography
With 51,349 inhabitants in 2006, Ardakan is the second largest city in the province. It is about 60 km away from the provincial capital Yazd in a very dry climate.
history
"Ardakan" means sacred place or clean place in Persian . In the city there are a number of historic buildings, such as mosques Masjed-e Jame and Zire deh or Tekiyeh -Basar.
Ardakan was founded in the Zardug region in the 12th century . During the 19th and 20th centuries, the city developed into an important hub for caravans . Around 1900 Ardakan had about 15,000 inhabitants and was surrounded by high walls. In 1950 only about 12,000 people lived in the city. After a new street was built through the city center in 1959, the population rose to 14,333 by 1966. In Ardakan, as in other traditional cities in the central Iranian region (e.g. in Neyschaboor), the urban planning principles and structures of the city were not taken into account when building the wide and straight roads for car traffic. In Ardakan, this meant that the construction of the adjacent buildings no longer meets the environmental conditions on the edge of the desert because the windows and openings are too big for the heat and the street space is too wide to provide sufficient shade. Today's new street space looks monotonous and chaotic, not least due to the fact that it has destroyed the division of areas and sequence qualities that were characteristic of the traditional street network.
traffic
The city is on the Qom – Zahedan railway , the southern east-west rail link of Iran.
Zoroastrianism
The city is a great center of Zoroastrianism . In particular, the village of Sharif-Abad near Ardakan is the destination of thousands of Zoroastrian pilgrims from all over the world every year. In Sharif-Abad is the Pir-e Sabz shrine , which is of great importance for the Zoroastrian religion.
sons and daughters of the town
- Mohammad Chātami (born October 14, 1943), former President of Iran.
- Mohammad-Reza Chātamī (* 1959), politician and co-founder of the participation front of Islamic Iran
Web links
- CE Bosworth : Ardakan . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica (English, including references)
- Official site (Persian)
- Official site (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ali Ghaffar-Sedeh (1990), Foundations and Design Principles of the Traditional Cities of Central Iran. Ed .: Urban Development Institute in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Stuttgart. Urban Development Institute <Stuttgart>: work report; 45, 350 p., Dissertation 1990; Pp. 303-304, 307.