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Bābol (Persian بابل / bɔ ː bol / until 1927 Bārforūsch ) is a city in the Iranian province of Māzandarān and seaside resort on the Caspian Sea.

Bābol located on the eponymous river and is about 30 km from the provincial capital sari removed. The city is the main trading Māzandarāns ( once all over North of Iran). Bābol has 198 636 inhabitants ( 2006). To the south is the place Ālāscht, Reza Shah Pahlavi of birth.

History

The first name was Bābols Māmitrā ( Persian: ماميترا, "place Mithras ", according to the Iranian deity Mithra ), and later in the neupersischen development Māmtir.

Sources of Iranian history can be seen that in the year 864 AD in the context of directed against the representatives of the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad Arab resistance of the Iranian nobility and large parts of the population in the region of the prince Abdollah Ibn Vendad - Omid the people of the city to calling with great success, to join the resistance. The present city, the (1413-1488 AD) was, according to the historian Sayyed Zahiruddin Mar'ashi his time Bārforūschdeh, from which the later Bārforūsch in the 16th century emerged, attained the height of its economic development in the late 18th century because of trade with Russia. Under the dynasty of the Zand, the city was finally became the capital of the province Māzandarān. Favored by the hostility of the later Qajar dynasty against the former ruling family of the Zand and the sympathy of the urban population for the overthrown Zand dynasty, the provincial capital was moved again to Sari in later times. This and other decisions ( eg the non- access to built by Reza Shah Trans Iranian Railway in the early 20th century) the city lost in later times some importance.

During the confrontation between the Persian government under the Qajar dynasty with the religious movement of Babs and before the later burgeoning community of Bahais came in the years 1848 and 1849 to a military confrontation between armed forces and the followers of Babism near the city. Here, the Babis suffered great losses. In the historiography of the confrontation went as " the event of the fortress Sheikh '( Vāghe'ehe Ghal'ehe Sheikh Tabarsi ) as the Mausoleum of the spiritual scholar Sheikh Tabarsi ( Ahmad Ibn Abitaleb Tabarsi ) had served as a venue for the discussion.

However, the city was also later a relatively high proportion of residents of non-Islamic faith, here in particular citizens of the Jewish faith, and Bahais.

Economy

Bābol is next Tonekābon a major center of Iranian citrus fruit production. Also tea and rice are grown in the surrounding countryside. Until the 1980s there was also tobacco, silk, cotton and soybeans.

Universities

• Medical Bābol
• Māzandarān technology
• Noschīrvāni Institute

Attractions

• The Museume Gandschineh
• The Kaiserlicheas Palace (now part of a university ).
• Mohammad- Hassan - Khān - Brüohcke - built under the kadscharischen conqueror of the city Mohammad Hassan Khān (1722-1758)