ARDEBIL

ärdəbēlˈ, town (1991 pop. 311,022), NW Iran, near the Republic of Azerbaijan. It is a market center for a fertile agricultural region. Carpets and rugs are produced in the town. Ardebil was probably founded in the 5th cent. a.d. It became (10th cent.) the capital of Azerbaijan but was soon superseded by Tabriz. In 1220 it was destroyed by the Mongols. The town quickly regained its importance as the home of Safi ad-Din, the founder of a celebrated Sufi order. The Safavids erected a beautiful shrine there, and the town became a center of pilgrimage. Ardebil also contains the tomb of Shah Ismail. The town was occupied by the Turks in 1725 and by the Russians in 1828. Its proficient library was taken to St. Petersburg by the Russians. The name is also spelled Ardabil.

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Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine
Book by John Alexander Pope; Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art, 1956
Subjects: Porcelain, Chinese, Porcelain--Iran--Tehran--Catalogs
...in 1930-1931, he again described the Ardebil Shrine and with it the Chini-khaneh...Hobson, this Chinese porcelain was sent to Ardebil as a personal present from the Chinese...suggestion that the porcelains came to Ardebil as the gift of the Wan-li emperor...
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Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces
Book by Steven R. Ward; Georgetown University Press, 2009
Subjects: Iran--Armed Forces--History, Iran--History, Military
...crossed into Iran farther east near Ardebil, however, convinced Matbooi that...guard had crossed into Iran north of Ardebil around dawn and engaged a small Iranian cavalry patrol on the Astara-Ardebil road. Soon thereafter, Soviet bombers...
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Fourteenth-Century Blue-And-White: A Group of Chinese Porcelains in the Topkapu Sarayi Muzesi, Istanbul
Book by John Alexander Pope; Freer Gallery of Art, 1952
Subjects: Porcelain, Chinese, Porcelain--Turkey--Istanbul
...21 , 23 . Archives of the Palace , 9 - 11 , 16 . Ardebil, 10 , 12 . Ardebil Collection , 3 - 4 , 12 , 19n, 22n, 28 , 32 , 40n...white: Arabic inscriptions on, 13 , 20 - 21 , 23 . Ardebil Collection, 3 - 4 , 12 , 19n, 22n, 28 , 32 , 40n...
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The Strangling of Persia: A Story of the European Diplomacy and Oriental Intrigue That Resulted in the Denationalization of Twelve Million Mohammedans, a Personal Narrative
Book by W. Morgan Shuster; The Century Co., 1912
Subjects: Eastern Question (Central Asia), Iran--History--1909-, Iran--Politics And Government--1909-
...Sultan, was about to enter the town of Ardebil, the inhabitants prepared to resist him...the prohibition ordered by the police of Ardebil about speaking of Muhammad Ali Mirza was...protected by Russian Cossacks, entered Ardebil in triumph and committed the usual acts...
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Diplomatic History of Persia, 1917-1923: Anglo-Russian Power Politics in Iran
Book by Nasrollah Saifpour Fatemi; Russell F. Moore, 1952
Subjects: Iran--Foreign Relations
...the first week of May, were ordered on May 26 to start for Ardebil and then proceed to Enzeli. The Russian Commander in answer...troops would be withdrawn from Astara and the direction of Ardebil after the completion of his task at Enzeli. Later events proved...
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Developments in Talesh: An Interview with Daryiush Yaghoubi
Journal article by Soheila Shahshahani; Nomadic Peoples, Vol. 7, 2003
Subjects: Yaghoubi, Dariush--Interviews
...Azarbaijan and the southern fringes of Ardebil. One of the geographical features of...buy other products and foodstuffs from Ardebil, Rasht and Meshkinshahr, and sell these...the moutain pastures by car? DY: From Ardebil, yes. They take them by car now. But...
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The "velvet Revolution" of Iranian Puritan Hardliners
Journal article by Alireza N. Haghighi, Victoria Tahmasebi; International Journal, Vol. 61, 2006
Subjects: Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, Foreign policy, Iran, Personal profiles, Personality, Political power, Presidents
...later instrumental in giving Ahmadinejad the governorship of Ardebil. Contrary to some reports, Ahmadinejad did not serve at all...advised Besharati to appoint Ahmadinejad as the first governor of Ardebil Province. At the time, Ahmadinejad had started his PhD degree...
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Censuses of Pastoral Nomads and Some General Remarks about the Census of Nomadic Tribes of Iran in 1998
Journal article by Ebrahim Moussavi-Nejad; Nomadic Peoples, Vol. 7, 2003
Subjects: Census--Comparative analysis, Census--Evaluation, Census--Methods, Censuses--Comparative analysis, Censuses--Evaluation, Censuses--Methods, Mathematical statistics--Usage, Nomads--Surveys, Statistics (Mathematics)--Usage
...22.4 per cent) whereas East Azerbaijan province (and Ardebil) showed an increase of about 8,786 families (77 per cent...families belonged to West Azerbaijan, East Azerbaijan and Ardebil provinces! In Central Province whose tribes in the mountainside...
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Lifetime Abortion Rate in Iran Is Estimated to Be One per Four Women
Journal article by H. Ball; International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 34, 2008
Subjects: Abortion--Research, Contraception--Evaluation, Contraception--Influence, Religiousness--Evaluation, Religiousness--Influence
...rate of zero, religiosity scores ranged from around-1 (in Ardebil, which had the fourth lowest religiosity score) to 2 (in...that had low levels of both abortion and religiosity, such as Ardebil, had relatively high rates of modern contraceptive use. In...
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Trade and State in the Arabian Seas: a Survey from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Journal article by Goldstone; Journal of World History, Vol. 11, 2000
Subjects: World History--Periodicals
...merchants from Anatolia and Rumania to Delhi, Calcutta, or Astrakhan to Armenia, or--and apparently just like the shrines at Ardebil or Mashed, and partly through capital accumulated by its role as clearance bank for the overland trade--the Armenian patriarchal...
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Who Is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and What Is He Really After?
Magazine article by Ilan Berman; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 135, March 2007
Subjects: Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud--Biography, Iran--Civil rights, Iran--Economic aspects, Iran--Political aspects, Iran--Religious aspects, Iranian foreign relations--Political aspects, Khomeini, Ruhollah, Ayatollah, Presidents (Government)--Biography, Presidents--Biography
...the regimes fanatical domestic militia, during the eight-year Iran-Iraq War. Afterward, he served as the governor of Ardebil province, and as an organizer of Ansar-e Hezbollah, the most notorious of Irans guruh-i fishar (vigilante or "pressure...


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newspaper articles on: Ardebil  - 2 results

 
 
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Ayatollah's Backers Demand Ouster of Reformers
Newspaper article by Ben Barber; The Washington Times, August 8, 2000
...banned reformist newspapers. The pro-reform weekly Cheshmeh Ardebil in northwestern Iran was ordered closed for four months on...sanctities," the daily Abrar reported. The director of Cheshmeh Ardebil, Naser Jafari, was fined $125. Some merchants said they...
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Morning Serial
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 13, 2005
...Quite where these masterpieces were made is fiercely debated; reputedly, they were originally kept in a shrine in the town of Ardebil, and hence the name in Persian: Azerbbaijan. But there is no evidence to suggest that the community possessed workshops...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ardebil  - 4 results

 
 
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Ardebil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARDEBIL ard bel , town (1991 pop. 311,022...Carpets and rugs are produced in the town. Ardebil was probably founded in the 5th cent...the town became a center of pilgrimage. Ardebil also contains the tomb of Shah Ismail...
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Azerbaijan , Region, Iran
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...East Azerbaijan), Urmia (the capital of West Azerbaijan), Ardebil (the capital of Ardabil), Maragheh , and Khoy (Khvoy...important provincial capital of the Timurid empire. It was out of Ardebil that the Safavid dynasty arose (c.1500) to renew the state...
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Kashan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...central Iran. The city has long been noted for its silk textiles, carpets, ceramics, copperware, and rose water. The Ardebil carpet and celebrated porcelain tiles were made there in the Safavid period. The present city is also a transportation center...
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Sabalan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SABALAN or Savalan sa v lan , volcanic cone, 15,592 ft (4,752 m) high, NW Iran, near Ardebil. The prophet Zoroaster reputedly wrote the Avesta there. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...


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