Friday, September 20, 2013

Top 10 cities you must visit in iran 9-Hamdan.

Hamedan is a very old city located north west of iran:


This city was the capital of the Ancient Median empire(9th century BC) the Median empire was famous because of destroying the Assyrian empire; it was also famous because of being the spring capital of the Acheamenids.
the name of the city was Hagmatana which the Greeks called it ikbatan; this city has a famous scroll belonging to the Acheamenid emperors Xrexes and Darius I and also because of the graves of famous poets.





To be continued... .

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