Gorgan

جرجان

City (Wikidata Q188155).

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Region
Persia & Central Asia
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Home of
بكر بن محمد بن ألياس· Ibn Sina (Avicenna)· Jahm ibn Zahr al-Ju'fi· Malik ibn Uqbun· Mir Fendereski
Place of death of
Ismail ibn Said al-Shalinji
Birthplace of
Mir Damad· Mir Fendereski
Site of
Battle of Astarabad (1759)· Battle of Gorgan (1223)· Battle of Jurjān (748)· Siege of Astarabad (1752)

People and things also explored

Isfahan· Imam Ali shrine (Najaf)· Ibn Sina travels west to Gorgan· Ibn Sina enters Buyid service at Rayy· Ibn Sina withdraws to Khuzistan· Ibn Sina becomes vizier to Shams al-Dawla at Hamadan· The Fitting-out of Muhammad ibn al-Qasim· The Killing of Qutayba ibn Muslim

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A city and province in central Iran, where Ibn Sina spent his last years at the court of Ala al-Dawla. It was a Seljuk capital under Tughril Beg and Malikshah, then the Safavid capital that Shah Abbas replanned around the Maydan-i Shah. It suffered massacre and siege under Timur and the Afghans, and today keeps one of the most significant complexes of Islamic monuments preserved in a modern city.