QAZVIN

käzvēnˈ, city (1991 278,826), Tehran prov., NW Iran. A road and rail-transport center, the city has textile and flour mills, and wineries. Qazvin was probably founded by Shapur II, king of Persia, in the 4th cent. a.d. It was captured by the Arabs in 644. Hasan-i Sabbah, the founder of the secret Ismaili Assassin order, seized (c.1090) the nearby fortress of Alamut and made it the headquarters of the order. Shah Tahmasp I embellished the city with many fine buildings. It was the capital of Persia from 1548 to 1598. In 1722 the city was temporarily captured by the Afghans. During World War I it was occupied by Russian forces. In 1941 the city was bombed by the Soviet air force and after World War II was a stronghold during the brief Soviet occupation of N Iran. The city is also known as Kazvin and Kasbin.

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books on: Qazvin  - 114 results

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Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850
Book by Abbas Amanat; Cornell University Press, 1989
Subjects: Babism--History, Iran--Religion--19th Century, Sh?I?Ah--Iran--History
...transactions and contracts annoyed merchants of Qazvin, who protested against his shady practices...details of fiqh. The polarization of the Qazvin community into two camps inevitably drew...their agricultural and urban holdings in Qazvin, a source of revenue that possibly caused...
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Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East: Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period
Book by Andrew J. Newman; Brill, 2003
Subjects: Iran--Civilization--Congresses, Iran--History--Osafavid Dynasty, 1501-1736--Congresses
...Fatimeh, wife of the Eighth Imam, in Qazvin and Shiraz the Masjid-i Shah, and in...Ehsan Echraqi, Le Dar al-Saltana de Qazvin, deuxieme capital des Safavides,in...the relationship between the maydans in Qazvin and Isfahan. Both of the public squares...
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The Persians
Book by E. Denison Ross; Clarendon Press, 1931
Subjects: Iran
...vegetation behind, and the rest of the journey to Qazvin is dull and uninspiring. Qazvin is supposed to date back to Sasanian times and...regicide was at Alamut, about forty miles from Qazvin. In the reign of the second Safavid king, Tahmasp...
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Origins of the Cold War: An International History
Book by Melvyn P. Leffler, David S. Painter; Routledge, 1994
...On November 19, 1945 Soviet forces at Qazvin, ninety miles northwest of Tehran, halted...Soviet troops manning the roadblock at Qazvin and of widespread Soviet efforts to encourage...American military attache traveled to Qazvin and Karaj, scenes of the purported obstructions...
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Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Clergy-State Relations in the Pahlavi Period
Book by Shahrough Akhavi; State University of New York Press, 1980
Subjects: Iran--Politics And Government--1941-1979, Islam And Politics--Iran, Ulama--Iran
...10 million square meters of land in the Qazvin a town some 90 miles to the west of Tehran...according to title deed document #1708 of the Qazvin Land Registry and dated 27 Azar 1350 H...5 million square meters of land in the Qazvin district to Mrs. Ta at Bani Adam; 16...
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journal articles on: Qazvin  - 13 results

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Chronology: Iran
Journal article; The Middle East Journal, Vol. 49, 1995
Subjects: Iran, Politics
...3 NYT Aug. 3: Riots broke out in Qazvin after the parliament rejected a bill by a vote of 105-103 to separate Qazvin from Zanjan province and establish a separate provincial government, allowing Qazvin to retain more profits and taxes from...
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Tracing Ancient 'Nomads': (1) Isotopic Research on the Origins of Vertical 'Transhumance'
Journal article by Marjan Mashkour; Nomadic Peoples, Vol. 7, 2003
Subjects: Iranians--History, Prehistoric peoples--Research, Primitive societies--Research, Subsistence economy--Research, Traditional societies--Research
...cultivators and herders in Ziaran (Abyek-Qazvin), compiling a volume of osteological...D. Billiou 2000b. Isotopic Study of Qazvin Plain (Iran) Fauna From the Neolithic...Neolithique a lAge du Fer dans la plaine de Qazvin (Iran). Etude archeozoologique des...
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"Russian Intrusion into the Guarded Domain": Reflections of a Qajar Statesman on European Expansion
Journal article by Abbas Amanat; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 113, 1993
Subjects: Iran--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Literature and history--Iran, Persian literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Russia--Portrayals, depictions, etc., War and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Ray, the Turks of Khamsa, the Lurs of Qazvin. Helpless and miserable before the wicked...But by associating them with Ray and Qazvin, provinces not indigenous to these ethnic...forced to take refuge at his estate in Qazvin.(32) Yet the playful wheel does not...
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"Its Mortar Mixed with the Sweetness of Life:" Architecture and Ceremonial at the Shrine of Safi Al-din Ishaq Ardabili during the Reign of Shah Tahmasb I
Journal article by Kishwar Rizvi; The Muslim World, Vol. 90, 2000
Subjects: Architecture, Religious cults, Safi, Shaykh, Shrines
...royal-public life. In his capital, Qazvin, Shah Tahmasb had ordered the building...the Iwdn-i bald(lofty portal) in Qazvin. Likewise, the Gunbad-isbdbzddeha...inlaid dome) of the Iwan-i sahi in Qazvin, and praised, ironically, for its uniqueness...
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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
...common in the Levant, was also normal in daily transactions at Isfahan and Qazvin. Thus ARA, Collectie Geleynssen 171 a, Brieven van Wollebrand Geleynssen uit Qazvin , 8 October 1642, " Petizione al Signor Itimad ud Douleh" and "Copia del...
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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
...was transcribed into Arabic script. West from Tehran, in Qazvin, I saw the first important Islamic edifice: the mausoleum...Sunni Arabs at Karbala, near Baghdad, in a.d. 680. Leaving Qazvin, the bus took us on to Hamadan, between the Zagros and Elburz...
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Dealing with Iran
Magazine article by John Feffer; Foreign Policy in Focus, September 14, 2010
Subjects: Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud--Foreign policy, Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud--Military policy, International security--Management, Iranian foreign relations--Military aspects, Nuclear nonproliferation--Laws, regulations and rules, Obama, Barack--Foreign policy, Presidents (Government)--Foreign policy, Presidents (Government)--Military policy, Presidents--Foreign policy, Presidents--Military policy, Security, International--Management, United States foreign relations--Management
...script to see where the story stops making sense. Lets start with the latest news, that Iran is building a secret facility near Qazvin to evade International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring. The information comes from a rarely reliable Iranian dissident organization...
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Iran: Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Persons
Magazine article by Nasim Sadat Hosseini-Divkolaye; Forced Migration Review, April 2009
Subjects: Smuggling
...accomplice husband, for example, were arrested and convicted for trafficking young girls and women to work in a brothel in Qazvin, as were 20 members of a human trafficking ring in the city of Bileh Savar. During 2004, the Iranian Border Force arrested...
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The Mystery of the Caspian Oil Boom Part Two
Magazine article by Alec Rasizade; Contemporary Review, Vol. 285, October 2004
Subjects: Petroleum industry--Analysis, Petroleum pipelines--Buildings and facilities, Petroleum pipelines--Investments, Petroleum--Transportation
...Gas Company for the period of 25 years based on the take-or-pay principle. Iran opened in 2002 a 550 km gas pipeline from Qazvin, in central Iran, to Bazargan on the border with Turkey. Under the contract, Iranian export of natural gas to Turkey will...
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Dateline Tehran: A Revolution Implodes
Magazine article by Robin Wright; Foreign Policy, Summer 1996
Subjects: Economic stagnation--Iran, Iran--Economic aspects, Islam and politics--Iran, Politics--Iran, Social problems--Iran
...disillusionment is visible in several ways. Since 1992, sporadic riots have erupted in major cities such as Tehran, Mashhad, Shiraz, Qazvin, and Arak. Thousands have been involved in pockets of unrest over prices and housing shortages--flash points still not...
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Analysis; Women 'Invading' Iran Politics
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 6, 2007
Subjects: City councils--Political aspects
...HIEDEH FARMANI Agence France-Presse QAZVIN, Iran -- Banned from becoming president...seat on the city council in the city of Qazvin northwest of Tehran. Somebody has to...sit in the new nine-member council in Qazvin after the December 15 elections, where...
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168 Killed in Crash of Iranian Passenger Jet
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 16, 2009
Subjects: Aircraft accidents--Casualties, Airlines--Casualties, Caspian Airlines
...Armenian capital Yerevan when it crashed near the village of Jannatabad outside the city of Qazvin, around 75 miles north-west of Tehran. The Qazvin emergency services director Hossein Bahzadpour said the plane was completely destroyed and the...
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Iran Air Crash
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), July 15, 2009
Subjects: Airlines, Iran Air
...the national Caspian Airlines was heading from Tehran to the Armenian capital Yerevan and crashed near the city of Qazvin. Qazvin emergency services director Hossein Bahzadpour said the plane was completely destroyed and the wreckage was in flames...
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168 Killed as Iranian Plane Crashes Just after Take-Off
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 15, 2009
Subjects: Aircraft accidents--Casualties, Airlines--Casualties, Caspian Airlines
...Tehrans Imam Khomeini airport. The crash site is near Jannatabad village, outside the city of Qazvin, about 75 miles north-west of Tehran. Qazvin emergency services director, Hossein Bahzadpour, said the plane was destroyed and the wreckage...
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Chilling Iranian Stories; Tales from an Islamist Gulag
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 16, 2007
...20. A day earlier, Irans judiciary confirmed that a man convicted of adultery has been stoned to death in the province of Qazvin. Jafar Kiani, a man in his late 40s, was stoned to death following his adultery conviction. Mr. Kiani spent the last decade...
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encyclopedia articles on: Qazvin  - 3 results

 
 
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Qazvin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
QAZVIN kazven , city (1991 278,826), Tehran prov., NW Iran. A road and rail-transport center, the city has textile and flour mills, and wineries. Qazvin was probably founded by Shapur II, king of Persia, in the 4th cent. a...
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Kazvin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KAZVIN Iran: see Qazvin . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Kasbin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KASBIN Iran: see Qazvin . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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