Qasr-e Shirin
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 Iran
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| Province : | Kermanshah | ||
| Coordinates : | 34 ° 31 ' N , 45 ° 35' E | ||
| Height : | 350 m | ||
| Residents : | 18,473 (2016) | ||
| Time zone : | UTC +3: 30 | ||
Qasr-e Shirin ( Persian قصر شيرين) is a city in the Iranian province of Kermanshah near the border with Iraq . The city is on the right side of the Hulwan River. Qasr-e Shirin was an important caravanserai on the trade route that linked Baghdad with Iran.
The city is home to many ruins from the Sassanid period . This also includes palace ruins. The name of the city means Shirin's palace . Shirin was the favorite wife of the Persian great king Chosrau II.
Shah Abbas I settled 900 Kurdish families here to protect the then Turkish-Persian border. In 1639 the Treaty of Qasr-e Shirin was signed here between the Safavids and the Ottomans , which ended 150 years of sporadic wars between the two states over territorial conflicts.
During the First World War , Qasr-e Schirin was the seat of the “Provisional Government”, called “Committee X”, supported by the German Reich government. This was under the leadership of Reza Qoli Khan Nezam al Saltaneh , the governor of Lorestan , and Hassan Modarres .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Brinkhoff: Qaṣr-e Shīrīn in Qaṣr-e Shīrīn (Kermanschah). In: www.citypopulation.de. July 1, 2017, accessed December 6, 2017 .
- ↑ a b M. Streck: Ḳaṣr-i Shīrīn . In: Martinus Theodorus Houtsma (ed.): EJ Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936 . tape 4 . Brill, Leiden 1993, ISBN 978-90-04-09790-2 , pp. 804 ff . (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ^ Ulrich Gehrke: Persia in the German Orientpolitik. W. Kohlhammer, 1960, p. 240.