Kerman
Kerman (Persian کرمان ) is an Iranian city of the province of Kerman. Kerman is located 1076 km from Tehran in a plane and 1,755 m above sea level. The city had 2006 636.242 inhabitants.
The city is partially surrounded by mountains, which caused an arid desert climate and the southern part a temperate climate in the northern part of Kerman.
Culture and history
Kerman has a long history, and was known to the Greeks under the name Karamani. Ptolemy and Ammianus Marcellinus mention the country under the name of Carmania. Perhaps the city was founded by the Sassanid king Ardashir I in the third century. At that time the city of Ardashir - Choreh was called. The Arabs called the city Bardasir or Bardaschir and the Persians they knew under the name Guwaschir.
Kerman was traditionally a center for the production of Persian carpets. The hitherto most expensive Islamic art was at an auction at Christie's in London in 2010 a four-meter high Kerman carpet from the 17th century. The auction price amounted to 5.5 million pounds.
Near the city the important ruins of the city lie Dschiroft. In the city itself is home to a minority of Zoroastrians.
From 1048-1188 Kerman was the center of the kingdom of Kerman Seljuks, founded by Sultan Qawurd. His brother Alp Arslan ruled the kingdom of Großseldschuken from Persia to Syria, Qawurds cousin Sulaiman founded the sultanate of Rum - Seljuks in Anatolia. The Kerman overthrew the Seljuk (936-1048 ruling ) branch of the Buyids of Kerman and repressed, the Ghaznavids in the region. Soon, their empire across the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea stretching away to Oman across the Arabian Peninsula ( to about 1140 ). After that first took oghusische military leaders in Kerman power, before they, too, had in 1195 to submit to the Khorezm Shah himself.
In the travelogue "Il Milione " the Marco Polo of the beginning of the 14th century Kerman is described as Kierman.
Although a majority of Muslim inhabitants had been known in the 11th century to the Ismaili Shia, the city was conquered until 1502 by the Imami Safavids and " schiitisiert ". Until 1794, resided in Kerman, the last of the country from 1750 dominant Zand - Prince, collapsed in 1842, there is a rebellion of the Ismaili Aga Khan I..
Tomb Shah Nur ad -Din Allah Nimat Walis ( in the village Mahan )
Masjid gate
Rayen Castle, Kerman
Attractions
Muhammad Ismail Khan built a caravanserai, the caravanserai -i wekil for wekil -al- Maelk (Governor middle of the 19th century in Kerman ). Fine tiled walls and a long time about half a kilometer main shopping street (the longest street in the Persian Bazaar space ) impress the viewer. The building, the towering chimneys are called wind towers and typical of the Persian desert regions Style ( Kerman, Yazd and Isfahan). You have open anchorage with mobile blinds, which can be aligned with the wind. Cooling air is directed to the rooms on the ground floor, which are often visited as a refuge even living rooms during the hottest months of the year, because the temperatures are quickly lower than in the upper floors between 20-30 °.
A special attraction also the entrance to the Theological Faculty ( Medresseh ) and the hamam of Ibrahim Khan represents the two portals were built in the early 19th century. Faience decorate particularly cheerful colors: peacock, water birds and flowers prevail, besides text bands in Persian calligraphy. Also, keep the interiors, which the portals already indicate. In hamam waiting for murals.
Air table
Colleges and Universities
- Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman One of the most important technological institutes of Iran.
- Kerman University of Medical Sciences
- Islamic Azad University of Kerman
- Kerman Khaje - Nasir Higher Education Center