Capitals of Persia

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Iran (Persia) has had numerous capital cities and royal centers throughout its history.

• Ahar; Pishkinid dynasty
• Achaemenid
  era
• Safavid era, Sajid
• Asaak; Parthian era royal center
• Astara; Ispahbads of Gilan
• Alamut Castle; Nizari Ismaili state
• Bavandid, Chalavi, (Parthian Empire
  climate capital)
• Achaemenid
  era
• Jalayerid, Buyid
• Balkh; in legend, the governmental center of the Kayanian dynasty^[1]
• Bardsir; Banu Ilyas
• Jalayerid
• Bukhara; Samanid era
• Sassanid
  era
• Damavand; Masmughans of Damavand
• Dinavar; Hasanwayhids
• Diyarbakır; Aq Qoyunlu
• Dabuyid
• Bavandid
• Ghurid
• Firuzkuh; Chalavi
• Shahr-e Qumis (Hecatompylos); Parthian
  era
• Ghaznavid
• Sassanid
  era
• Alavids
• Ghurid, Kartids, Timurid Empire
• Hulwan; Annazids
• Ij (Ig); Shabankara
• Kakuyid Emirate, Injuid dynasty, Seljuk era, Safavid era
• Istakhr; Sassanian era
• Izeh (Idaj); Hazaraspids
• Seljuks
  (Greater and Iraq Seljuks)
• Kerman; Muzaffarid, Qutlugh-Khanids
• Khorramabad; Khorshidi dynasty
• Kunya Urgench
  ; early Khwarezmid era
• Lafur; Qarinvand dynasty
• Lankaran; Talysh Khanate
• Karkiya dynasty
• Maragheh; Ilkhanid, Ahmadilis, Sajid
• Afsharid
• al-Mamun
  's caliphate, and Taherid era, Seljuk Empire
• Mosul; winter capital during Qara Qoyunlu
• Nakhchivan; Eldiguzids
• Nishapur; Ilkhanid, Seljuq, Taherid eras
• Nisa, Turkmenistan; periodical capital of the Parthian era
• Achaemenid^[1]
• Achaemenid grand capital^[1]
• Ziyarid, Buyid, Seljuk Empire
• Rudbar; Justanids
• Safavid
  era
• Sabzevar; Sarbadars
• Samarkand; Samanid, Khwarazmid, Timurid era
• Shiraz; Buyid dynasty, Injuid dynasty, Muzaffarid dynasty, Salghurid dynasty, Zand dynasty
• Soltaniyeh; Ilkhanid
• Achaemenid
  , Parthian era
• Safavid
  era
• Sallarid
• Sari; Qajar, Dabuyid, Alavid, Bavandid, Marashis
• Kakuyid, Atabegs of Yazd
• Mihrabanid, Nasrid
• Islamic Republic of Iran
  1796–present

• Iran
• Ancient Iran
• Afghanistan

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