{"id":15330,"date":"2016-09-06T16:54:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T16:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/?p=15330"},"modified":"2016-09-04T18:58:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T18:58:41","slug":"shiraz-fars-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/shiraz-fars-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiraz &#8211; Fars Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/product\/iran-gps-map-for-garmin-on-sdmicro-card\/\" class=\"vcex-button theme-button graphical orange small align-left inline\" title=\"Buy Iran GPS Map for Garmin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"none noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"vcex-button-inner theme-button-inner\">Buy Iran GPS Map for Garmin<\/span><\/a> \n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/product\/iran-gps-map-for-android-persianfarsi\/\" class=\"vcex-button theme-button graphical green small align-right inline\" title=\"Buys Iran GPS Map for Mobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"none noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"vcex-button-inner theme-button-inner\">Buy Iran GPS Map for Mobile<\/span><\/a> \n<\/br><br \/>\nShiraz (<strong>\u0634\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0632<\/strong>) is the fifth most populated city in Iran and the capital of Fars Province (\u0627\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0641\u0627\u0631\u0633). Shiraz is located in the southwest of Iran on the Rudkhaneye (Roodkhaneye) Khoshk seasonal river (The Dry River) (29\u00b037\u2032N 52\u00b032\u2032E) and has a moderate climate and has been a regional trade center for more than a thousand years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/images\/cities\/shiraz-map.jpg\" alt=\"Iran Fars, Shiraz Map\" width=\"274\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The earliest reference to the city, as Tirazis, is on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elamite_language\" target=\"_blank\">Elamite<\/a> clay tablets dated to 2000 BC. In the 13th century, Shiraz became a leading center of the arts and letters, thanks to the encouragement of its ruler and the presence of many Persian scholars and artists. Shiraz was the capital of Persia during the Zand dynasty (\u0633\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0647 \u0632\u0646\u062f\u06cc\u0647) from 1750 until 1781, as well as briefly during the Saffarid (\u0635\u0641\u0627\u0631\u06cc\u0627\u0646) period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/images\/cities\/persepolis.jpg\" alt=\"Shiraz Persepolis\" width=\"319\" height=\"239\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shiraz is known as the city of poets, wine and flowers. It is also considered by many Iranians to be the city of gardens, due to the many gardens and fruit trees that can be seen in the city like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eram_Garden\" target=\"_blank\">Eram Garden (\u0628\u0627\u063a \u0627\u0631\u0645)<\/a>. Shiraz has had major Jewish and Christian communities. The crafts of Shiraz consist of inlaid mosaic work of triangular design; silver-ware; pile carpet-weaving and weaving of kilim, called gilim (\u06af\u0644\u06cc\u0645\u200e\u200e) and jajim (\u062c\u0627\u062c\u06cc\u0645) in the villages and among the tribes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/images\/cities\/Hafez-Tomb.jpg\" alt=\"Hafez Tomb\" width=\"372\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Shiraz industries such as cement production, sugar, fertilizers, textile products, wood products, metalwork and rugs dominate. Shiraz also has a major oil refinery and is also a major center for Iran&#8217;s electronic industries: 53% of Iran&#8217;s electronic investment has been centered in Shiraz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/images\/cities\/Baghe-Eram-Shiraz.jpg\" alt=\"Baghe Eram Shiraz\" width=\"433\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shiraz\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>More about Shiraz<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- onsite3 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 728px; height: 90px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9334026102155055\" data-ad-slot=\"7341704967\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[ (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shiraz (\u0634\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0632) is the fifth most populated city in Iran and the capital of Fars Province (\u0627\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u0641\u0627\u0631\u0633). Shiraz is located in the southwest of Iran on the Rudkhaneye (Roodkhaneye) Khoshk seasonal river (The Dry River) (29\u00b037\u2032N 52\u00b032\u2032E) and has a moderate climate and has been a regional trade center for more than a thousand&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1061,7,9,1425,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,1063,26,29],"tags":[2143,2150,180,1975,2154,420,2155,2153,1416,2149,838,2145,2144,2031,2151,2156,2147,2146,1569,2148,2152],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-15330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-iran","category-culture","category-explore-iran-cities","category-history","category-in-car-navigation","category-iran","category-iran-gps-maps","category-iran-history","category-iran-news","category-iran-provinces","category-iranmap-site","category-irans-cultural-heritage","category-maps-of-iran","category-persian-literature","category-photos-from-iran-2","tag-elamite","tag-eram-garden","tag-fars","tag-fars-province","tag-gilim","tag-iran","tag-jajim","tag-kilim","tag-persian","tag-saffarid","tag-shiraz","tag-zand","tag-zand-dynasty","tag-2031","tag-2151","tag-2156","tag-2147","tag-2146","tag-1569","tag-2148","tag-2152","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15330"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15341,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15330\/revisions\/15341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15330"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=15330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}