MARAGHEH

märägäˈ, city (1991 pop. 117,388), East Azerbaijan prov., NW Iran, on the southern slopes of Mt. Sahand. It is the trade and transportation center of a fertile fruit-growing region; dried fruits are shipped from there. After the Arab conquest in the 7th cent. Maragheh developed rapidly as a provincial capital. In 1029 it was seized by the Oghuz Turks, but they were driven out by a Kurdish chief who established a local dynasty. The city was destroyed by the Mongols in 1221, but Hulagu Khan held court there until the establishment of a fixed capital at Tabriz. The city was temporarily occupied by Russia in 1828. Maragheh's celebrated observatory (13th cent.) is now in ruins. The city is also known as Maragha.

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Culture / Place / Health
Book by Wilbert M. Gesler, Robin A. Kearns; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Epidemiology, Medical Geography, Social Medicine
...women in the north-western Iranian town of Maragheh. For the people of Maragheh, heart distress is a disease category (see...shaped valentine to a loved one. When women in Maragheh were asked about the causes of heart distress...
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The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia
Book by René Grousset, Naomi Walford; Rutgers University Press, 1970
Subjects: Asia, Central--History
...The cities of Azerbaijan--Tabriz and Maragheh--were his capitals, in so far as...an observatory on a hill north of Maragheh, a palace at Alatagh, and some pagan...to pay court to Hulagu at his camp in Maragheh. Next, the atabeg of Fars, Abu Bakr...
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Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance
Book by George Lane; Routledge Curzon, 2003
...scientist at the observatory established under his supervision at Maragheh, he has been remembered for his significant contributions...location chosen was the site of the first Il-Khanate capital, Maragheh. Hulegu Khan commanded him to construct the observatory here...
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Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire
Book by Warwick Ball; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Rome--Civilization--Christian Influences, Rome--Civilization--Middle Eastern Influences
...Most authorities, however, have doubted this, favouring Maragheh at the south-eastern corner of Lake Urmia, citing the lack...Takht-i Sulaiman. 12 But there are no Parthian remains at Maragheh either, and certainly no ancient ramparts, while substantial...
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Lothagam: The Dawn of Humanity in Eastern Africa
Book by Meave G. Leakey, John M. Harris; Columbia University Press, 2003
Subjects: Animals, Fossil--Kenya--Lothagam Site, Lothagam Site (Kenya), Paleontology--Miocene, Vertebrates, Fossil--Kenya--Lothagam Site
...ogy, and zoogeographic relationships of the Late Miocene Maragheh fauna, Iran. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 6:76...correlation of three classical Piker- mian mammal faunas-Maragheh, Samos, and Pikermi- with the European MN unit system...
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Sketches from My Voice Locked In: the Lives of Basil Bunting
Journal article by Tom Pickard; Chicago Review, Vol. 44, 1998
Subjects: Bunting, Basil, Espionage, History, Personal profiles, Poets, Public officials, Writers
...prevented them from reaching the province. Five Iranian soldiers and two railway men were killed when the rebels took the town of Maragheh and marched down the Tabiz-Tehran railway line. When they occupied the key point of Maineh all telephonic and telegraphic...


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Life under Islamic Rule - Persian Cultural Traditions Became an Important Part of Islamic Civilization, but Today Iran Struggles to Find Its Identity, Torn between the Desire for Democratic Progress and Adherence to the Laws of Islam
Magazine article by Eva Harnik; World and I, Vol. 17, February 2002
Subjects: Culture--Iran, Iran--Description and travel, Islam--Social aspects, Manners and customs--Iran
...a hundred years. They introduced bricks and created amazingly intricate and lacelike designs using no other material. In Maragheh, in northwest Iran, I saw three tomb towers constructed of brick dating from this era. Later in the Seljuk period, blue...


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Maragheh
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MARAGHEH maraga , city (1991 pop. 117,388), East Azerbaijan prov., NW Iran...fruits are shipped from there. After the Arab conquest in the 7th cent. Maragheh developed rapidly as a provincial capital. In 1029 it was seized by the...
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Azerbaijan , Region, Iran
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of West Azerbaijan), Ardebil (the capital of Ardabil), Maragheh , and Khoy (Khvoy). The region is bounded in the N by Armenia...under Hulagu Khan established (13th cent.) their capital at Maragheh. After being conquered by Timur in the 14th cent., Tabriz...
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Maragha
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MARAGHA Iran: see Maragheh . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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