Kāzerūn

Kāzerūn
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	Kāzerūn
	Kāzerūn
Basic data
Country:	Iran
Province :	Fars
Coordinates :	29 ° 37 ′ N , 51 ° 39 ′ E Coordinates: 29 ° 37 ′ N , 51 ° 39 ′ E
Height :	853 m
Residents :	85,882 (2012)
Time zone :	UTC +3: 30
Website:	www.kazeroon.ir

Kāzerūn (in the English-speaking world also Kazeroon , Persian کازرون) is a city in the Iranian province of Fars . It is located 19 km south of the ancient city of Bishapur on the route from Shiraz to Bushehr .

Kāzerūn, once just a suburb of the famous city, was further expanded after the destruction of Bishāpūr by Firuz , the son of Yazdgerd II . During the Ghobād period (487–498), the expansion of the city was advanced.

Kāzerūn's agricultural products include dates , citrus fruits , wheat , tobacco , rice , cotton and wine .

A specific dialect, the Old Kāzerūnī dialect, is spoken in the city.

Personalities

Kāzerūn is also known as the “City of Science”. Personalities such as Qutb ad-Din al-Schirazi , Al-Dawānī (Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Asʿad Kāzarūnī Ṣiddīqī; 1426-1502), Allāme Ali Davānī, Sheykh Abu Eshāq Kāzerūnī, Mirānīhāq Kāzerūnī, Baliāt Ololamza addāzer, Bali , Nāser Divān Kāzerūnī come from here, as well as the mothers of the poets Hafiz and Saadi .

Nasrollāh Mardāni, a famous Persian poet, also comes from Kāzerūn. It is also believed that Salman the Persian , one of the disciples of Muhammad , was born in this city.

Other personalities from Kāzerūn:

Firouz Naderi , Director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Abdolreza Hajipoor , famous chemist
Reza Malekzadeh , famous doctor

Trivia

The city is the setting for a famous scene from the filmed hit novel My Uncle Napoleon .

Attractions

the ancient city of Bishapur
the archaeological hill Hakvan
Naqsch-e Shapur (inscription of King Shapur I )
the Achaemenid fire temple Hāji Ābād
the fire temples Kāzerūn and Bozorg Jahreh , although not much is left of the fire temple Kāzerūn apart from three corner pillars and two partially destroyed domes.
the ruins of Qal'eh-ye Gabri , ( Gabr Castle or also called Castle of the Zoroastrians ) southeast of Kāzerūn, on an artificially created hill
the Imamzādeh Shāh Hamzeh
the Barm plain , the largest oak plain in Iran
the Parischān Lake (Dariach-e Parischān), a nature reserve 12 km from Kāzerun
the Shapur River , near Bishapur
the sān source
the old bridges Ābgineh and Ali ben Hamzeh
the Tang-e-Chowgān - cave
the Sheikh Ali cave
Davān , Sarmāschhād , Sāsān and Kaskān - interesting villages in the vicinity of Kāzerūn
the fire temple Tschāhārtāq of Girre , (Arabicized Djirre) - one of the largest fire temples in the vicinity of Kāzerūn , which could be identical to the temple buildings of Mihr-Narseh mentioned by Tabari .