Kazerun

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Kazerun also Kazeroon (Persian کازرون ) is a city in the province of Fārs in Iran. It is located 19 km south of the ancient city Bischāpūr on the route from Shiraz to Bushehr.

Kazerun, once merely suburb of the famous city, has been expanded following the destruction Bischāpūrs of Firuz, the son Yazdgerds II. During the Ghobād time ( 487-498 ), the expansion of the city has been driven.

Among the agricultural products Kāzerūns include dates, citrus fruits, wheat, tobacco, rice, cotton and wine.

In the city, a specific dialect of Old Kāzerūnī dialect spoken.

Personalities

Kazerun is also referred to as the "City of Science ". Personalities such as Qutb al-Din al- Shirazi, Allāme Jalaladdin Davani, Allāme Ali Davani, Shaykh Abu Eshaq Kāzerūnī, Behjat Ololamā, Shaykh Amin addin Baliani, Mirza Saleh Kāzerūnī, Naser Divan Kāzerūnī come from here, as well as the mothers of poets Hafez and Saadi.

Also Nasrollah Mardani, a famous Persian poet, comes from Kazerun. It is further believed that Salman the Persian, one of the disciples of Muhammad, was born in this city.

Other personalities from Kazerun:

• Firouz Naderi, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL )
• Abdolreza Hajipoor, famous chemist
• Reza Malekzadeh, famous doctor

Trivia

• The city is the scene of a famous scene from the filmed -selling novel My Uncle Napoleon.

Attractions

• The ancient city Bischāpūr
• The archaeological hill Hakvan
• Naqsch -e Shapur ( inscription of King Schapurs I. )
• The Achaemenid Fire Temple Hāji Ābād
• The Fire Temple Kazerun and Bozorg Jahreh, which of the Fire Temple Kazerun except three pillars and two partially destroyed domes not much left.
• The ruins of Qal'eh -ye Gabri ( Gabr Castle or Castle of the Zoroastrians called ) southeast of Kazerun, on a man-made hill
• The Shrine of Shah Hamzeh
• The Barm - level, greatest oak plain in Iran
• The Parischān Lake, 12 km from Kazerun
• Shapur River, close to Bischāpūr
• The Asan - source
• The old bridges Ābgineh and Ali ben Hamzeh
• The Tang -e- Chowgān Cave
• The Shaykh Ali Cave
• Davan, Sarmāschhād, Sasan and Kaskān - picturesque villages in the area of Kazerun
• The Fire Temple Tschāhārtāq of Girre, ( Arabized Djirre ) - one of the largest fire temples in the area Kāzerūns who might be identical with those mentioned by Tabari temple of Mihr - Narseh.

Gallery

Sarāb -e Qandil relief at Kazerun

Sasan village

Hafez