Nehawand
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 Iran
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| Province : | Hamadan | ||
| Coordinates : | 34 ° 11 ′ N , 48 ° 22 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 75,859 (2012) | ||
| Time zone : | UTC +3: 30 | ||
Nehawand , also Nehāwend or Nahawand ( Persian نهاوند Nahavand , DMG Nahāwand ) is a city in Hamadan Province in Iran. It is located south of Hamadan , east of Malayer and southwest of Borudscherd . Nahāvand is one of the oldest existing cities in Iran.
Surname
The name نهاوندis written or transcribed differently in books and sources : also Nehavend , Nehawend , Nihavand etc .; formerly also Mah-Nahavand .
The ancient name was Laodicea ( ancient Greek Λαοδικεια ; Arabic Ladhiqiyya ), also called Laodiceia and Laodikeia , Laodikeia in Media or Laodikeia in Persis .
Other names were Antioch in Persis , Antioch of Chosrau ( ancient Greek Αντιόχεια του Χοσρόη ), Antioch in Media ( Αντιόχεια της Μηδίας ), Nemavand and Niphaunda .
history
Nahāvand was founded together with the Achaemenian cities of Apamea and Xerxes by Darius I in media . According to Pliny the Elder , the city formed the outermost border of the media and was re-established by Xerxes I (Volume VI. Of the Naturalis Historia).
In 642 the city was the site of the Battle of Nehāwand , which marked the end of the fall of the Sassanid Empire and the Islamic conquest of Iran.
Notable Nahāvand residents included Benjamin Nahawandi , a key figure in the development of Karaite Judaism in the early Middle Ages, and Ahmad Nahavandi , an 8th-century astronomer at the Gundishapur Academy .
In 2012 Nahāvand had a population of almost 76,000. Nahāvand gave its name to a type of melody in Arabic, Iranian and Turkish music.
literature
- Richard Talbert: Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World , ( ISBN 0-691-03169-X ), map 92
Web links
- Nehawand . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica (English, including references)
- Hamedan Province Cultural Heritage Site
- Persian History website
- William Smith (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography , "Laodiceia" , London , (1854)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:
- ↑ Strabons Geographika Volume XI, p. 524; Xerxes "Laodikeia"
- ↑ Population