Sarvestan
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| Province : | Fars | ||
| Coordinates : | 29 ° 12 ' N , 53 ° 14' E | ||
| Height : | 1557 m | ||
| Surface: | 5492 km² | ||
| Residents : | 17,700 (calculation 2012) | ||
| Area code : | (0098) 712522 | ||
| Time zone : | UTC +3: 30 | ||
Sarvestan , also Sarvestān, Sarvistan ( Persian سروستان), is a city in Fars Province in Iran . It is located 80 km southeast of Shiraz , the capital of the Fars province. Sarvestan has over 17,000 inhabitants.
In the area are wheat , pistachios and olives cultivated.
The palace of Sarvestan , an adobe ruin a few kilometers south of the city, plays an important role in Iranian art history and has been dated to the Sassanid period in the 5th century. According to a study by Lionel Bier (1986), however, the building that has been preserved was erected between 750 and 950 AD in Islamic times. Its core consists of a domed hall to which Iwane lead from the west and north sides. The arrangement of the domed hall with a certain resemblance to the basic shape of the Tschahar Taq led to the assumption that it could also have been a Zoroastrian fire temple .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:
- ↑ Sarvestan. livius.org
- ^ Lionel Bier: Sarvistan: A Study in Early Iranian Architecture. (The College Art Association of America. Monographs on the Fine Arts, XLI) Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park 1986