Farahabad, Mazandaran

Faraḥābād (Persian فرحآباد, place of happiness ') is a town on the coast of the Caspian Sea in the northern Iranian province Māzandarān with 2150 inhabitants ( calculated for 2013). Originally, there was a village by the name of Tajan river of the same until the Persian ruler Shah Abbas I had built a palace at this location since the year 1611, around which grew a city.

History

Abbas I moved to the city of thousands of Armenians and Jews, which he made ​​the Georgia and the Caucasus foothills had had to relocate. To the Jews, he admitted far-reaching privileges - like the Armenian merchants of New Julfa - Isfahan - one because he inform the strengthening of the production and trade of silk hoped. The ruler himself spent every winter in Farahabad and died here in the year 1629th The Italian traveler Pietro della Valle visited the city in 1618 and described the scope of their walls as compared with Rome and Constantine Opel.

The successor of Abbas I neglected the place. 1668 attacked Russian Cossacks under Stenka Razin the city as part of its foray into Persia and laid them in ruins.

Today, there is a village with a popular beach, which is accessible via an expressway, 30 km away from Sari. From the Safavid city there are the restored mosque which was built around 1625 by a similar plan as the Shah Mosque in Isfahan, the ruins of the palace and the remains of a bridge over the river Tajanrud.