Zangiabad
Zangiabad is a city in the Central District of Marvdasht County, Fars province, Iran. As a village, it was the capital of Naqsh-e Rostam Rural District until its capital was transferred to the village of Hajjiabad.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: village in Naqsh-e Rostam Rural District, Iran
- Also known as: “Zangīābād” and “Zangiabad, Fars”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Naqsh-e Rostam and Triumph of Shapur I..
Naqsh-e Rostam
Protected area
Photo: Stefan Krasowski, CC BY 2.0.
Naqsh-e Rostam is an ancient archeological site and necropolis located about 13 km northwest of Persepolis, in Fars province, Iran. A collection of ancient Iranian rock reliefs are cut into the face of the mountain and the mountain contains the final resting place of four Achaemenid kings, notably king Darius the Great and his son, Xerxes.
Triumph of Shapur I.
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shapur I's victory relief at Naqsh-e Rostam is located 3 kilometers north of Persepolis. It is one of eight Sasanian rock carvings cut into the cliff beneath the tombs of their Achaemenid predecessors.
Naqsh-e Rajab
Archaeological site
Photo: Simorg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Naqsh-e Rajab is an archaeological site west of Istakhr and about 5 km north of Persepolis in Fars province, Iran. Together with Naqsh-e Rostam, which lies 2.5 kilometres away, the site is part of the Marvdasht cultural complex which itself is a tentative candidate for World Heritage Site status. Naqsh-e Rajab is situated 3 km east of Zangiabad.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kenareh.
Kenareh
Village
Kenareh is a village in, and the capital of, Kenareh Rural District of the Central District of Marvdasht County, Fars province, Iran. Kenareh is situated 7 km south of Zangiabad.
Zangiabad
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Fars, Central Iran, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
29.97533° or 29° 58′ 31″ northLongitude
52.85559° or 52° 51′ 20″ eastElevation
1,622 metres (5,322 feet)Open location code
7HXJXVG4+46OpenStreetMap ID
node 4446818876OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to South Azerbaijani—“Zangiabad” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “زنغي أباد”
- Chinese: “Zangiabad”
- Dutch: “Zangiabad, Fars”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زنجیآباد”
- Kurdish: “Zengîabad”
- Malay: “Zangiabad, Fars”
- Malay: “Zangiabad”
- Mazanderani: “زنگیآباد (مرودشت)”
- Mazanderani: “زنگیآباد”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Zangiabad”
- Persian: “روستای زنگیآباد”
- Persian: “زنگی آباد”
- Persian: “زنگیآباد”
- South Azerbaijani: “زنگیآباد (مرودشت)”
- South Azerbaijani: “زنگیآباد”
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