Tehran

طهران

Capital of Iran at the foot of the Alborz; made the Qajar seat in 1788, it is the country's political, scholarly and publishing centre.

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Persia & Central Asia
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Birthplace of
Abbas Kiarostami· Abdolreza Helali· Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda· Ali Javan· Azar Nafisi· Cumrun Vafa· Dara Khosrowshahi· Mohammad Javad Zarif· Kaveh Akbar· Mahmoud Karimi· Majid Majidi· Maryam Mirzakhani· Mohammad Hossein Pouyanfar· Mohammad Mosaddegh· Mohammad Reza Pahlavi· Mohammad Sadeqi Tehrani· Muhammad Taqi Amoli· Nader Engheta· Pardis Sabeti· Reza Aslan· Seyed Hossein Nasr· Seyed Majid Banifatemeh· Seyyed Mohammad Bagher Borghei· Shervin Pishevar· Shohreh Aghdashloo· Zia' al-Saltaneh
Home of
Abdolreza Helali· Adib Peshawari· al-Khujandi Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr· Ali-Akbar Raefipour· Alireza Panahian· Elnaz Rekabi· Fakhr-i Jahan Khanum· Mahmoud Ahmadinejad· Mirza Gholam Reza Esfahani
Place of death of
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani· Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi· Fazlollah Nouri· Hassan Taqizadeh· Hossein Salami· Iraj Mirza· Mehdi Haeri Yazdi· Mirza Gholam Reza Esfahani· Mohammad Baqer Shirazi· Mohammad Reza Hakimi· Mohammad-Sadiq Fakhr ul-Islam· Mohammad-Taqi Bahar· Moslem Malakouti· Táhirih (Qurrat al-Ayn)· Yahya Dowlatabadi
Burial place of
Lotf Ali Khan Zand

People and things also explored

Mohammad Khatami· Isfahan· Mashhad· Qumm· Tabriz· Zahir-od-dowleh cemetery· Al-Rifa'i Mosque· Shah Abdol-Azim Shrine

Sources

  • Wikidata
  • GeoNames gazetteer
  • Nomisma.org (Linked Open Data ontology for numismatic concepts)
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