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Persepolis

Persepolis is a historical site 60 km north of , in province. It was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, inscribed in the UNESCO list in 1979.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, Iranian national heritage site
  • Also known as: “Chehel Menar”, “Chel Menar”, “Chelmenar”, “Chihil Minar”, “Chil Minar”, “Chilminar”, “Takht-e Jamshid”, “Takht-e Jamshīd”, “Takht-e-Jamshid”, and “Takht-i-Jamshīd”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include The Gate of All Nations and Palace of Darius I..

Ruins
Photo: Alborzagros, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as the Gate of Xerxes, is located in the ruins of the ancient city of Persepolis, Iran. The construction of the Stairs of All Nations and was ordered by the Achaemenid king Xerxes I, the successor of the founder of Persepolis, Darius I the Great.

Ruins
Photo: درفش کاویانی, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tachara, or the Tachar Château, also referred to as the Palace of Darius the Great, was the exclusive building of Darius I at Persepolis, . It is located 70 km northeast of the modern city of in .

Photo: mayhlen, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Persepolis

Latitude
29.9352° or 29° 56′ 7″ north
Longitude
52.8904° or 52° 53′ 26″ east
Population
100
Elevation
1,620 metres (5,315 feet)
Open location code
7HXJWVPR+35
Open­Street­Map ID
way 95531795
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
110836
Wiki­data ID
Q129072
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Persepolis” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Persepolis”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Περσέπολις”
  • Arabic: “برسپولس”
  • Arabic: “برسيبوليس”
  • Arabic: “تخت جمشيد”
  • Armenian: “Պերսեպոլիս”
  • Asturian: “Persépolis”
  • Azerbaijani: “Persepolis”
  • Bashkir: “Персеполь”
  • Basque: “Persepolis”
  • Basque: “Pertsepolis”
  • Belarusian: “Персепаліс”
  • Belarusian: “Персепаль”
  • Belarusian: “Пэрсэпаліс”
  • Bengali: “পার্সেপোলিস”
  • Breton: “Persepolis”
  • Bulgarian: “Персепол”
  • Bulgarian: “Персеполис”
  • Burmese: “ပါဆီပိုးလစ်”
  • Catalan: “Persèpolis”
  • Cebuano: “Persepolis”
  • Central Kurdish: “پەرسپۆلیس”
  • Chinese: “Persepolis”
  • Chinese: “波斯波利斯”
  • Chinese: “贝尔塞波利斯”
  • Croatian: “Persepolis”
  • Croatian: “Perzepol”
  • Croatian: “Perzepolis”
  • Croatian: “Perzopolis”
  • Czech: “Persepolis”
  • Danish: “Persepolis”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Persepolis”
  • Dutch: “Persepolis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تختى جمشيد”
  • Esperanto: “Persepolo”
  • Finnish: “Persepolis”
  • French: “Persépolis”
  • Galician: “Persépole”
  • Galician: “Persépolis”
  • Georgian: “პერსეპოლისი”
  • German: “Parseh”
  • German: “Persepolis”
  • Greek: “Ισταχάρ”
  • Greek: “Παρς”
  • Greek: “Περσέπολη”
  • Hebrew: “פרספוליס”
  • Hindi: “पर्सेपोलिस”
  • Hungarian: “Perszepolisz”
  • Icelandic: “Persepólis”
  • Indonesian: “Persepolis”
  • Irish: “Peirseapoil”
  • Italian: “Čehel Menāra”
  • Italian: “Chehel Menar”
  • Italian: “Chihil Minar”
  • Italian: “Chihilminar”
  • Italian: “Chilminara”
  • Italian: “Cihilminar”
  • Italian: “Cihilminār”
  • Italian: “Persepoli”
  • Italian: “Tchelminar”
  • Italian: “Tehelminar”
  • Japanese: “ペルセポリス”
  • Javanese: “Persepolis”
  • Kazakh: “Persepolïs”
  • Kazakh: “Персеполис”
  • Kazakh: “پەرسەپولىيس”
  • Kirghiz: “Персеполь”
  • Korean: “페르세폴리스”
  • Kurdish: “Textê Cemşîd”
  • Latin: “Persepolis”
  • Latvian: “Persepole”
  • Lithuanian: “Persepolis”
  • Low German: “Persepolis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Persepolis”
  • Macedonian: “Персеполис”
  • Malagasy: “Persepolisy”
  • Malagasy: “Persepôlisy”
  • Malay: “Persepolis”
  • Malayalam: “പേർസെപൊലിസ്”
  • Maltese: “Persepoli”
  • Maltese: “Persepolis”
  • Marathi: “पार्सा”
  • Mazanderani: “تخت جمشید”
  • Mazanderani: “جمشيد تخت”
  • Mongolian: “Персеполь”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پيرسيپوليس”
  • Nepali: “पर्सेपोलिस”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Persepolis”
  • Norwegian: “Persepolis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Persèpolis”
  • Oriya: “ପର୍ସେପୋଲିସ”
  • Persian: “پارسه”
  • Persian: “پرسپولیس”
  • Persian: “تخت جمشيد”
  • Persian: “تخت جمشید”
  • Persian: “تخت‌جمشيد”
  • Persian: “تخت‌جمشید”
  • Persian: “چل منار”
  • Persian: “چهل منار”
  • Persian: “صدستون”
  • Persian: “هزارستون”
  • Polish: “Persepolis”
  • Portuguese: “Persepolis”
  • Portuguese: “Persepólis”
  • Portuguese: “Persépolis”
  • Pushto: “تخت جمشید”
  • Pushto: “د جمشید پلاز”
  • Romanian: “Persepolis”
  • Russian: “Персеполь”
  • Scots: “Persepolis”
  • Serbian: “Persepolj”
  • Serbian: “Персеполис”
  • Serbian: “Персепољ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Parsa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Persepolis”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Persepolj”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Perzepolis”
  • Sicilian: “Persepolis”
  • Sindhi: “تخت جمشيد”
  • Slovak: “Persepolis”
  • Slovak: “Perzepolis”
  • Slovenian: “Perzepolis”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پرسپولیس”
  • Spanish: “Palacio de Persepolis”
  • Spanish: “Palacio de Persépolis”
  • Spanish: “Persepolis”
  • Spanish: “Persépolis”
  • Swahili: “Persepolis”
  • Swedish: “Palatset i Persepolis”
  • Swedish: “Palatskomplexet i Persepolis”
  • Swedish: “Pârsâ”
  • Swedish: “Persepolis”
  • Swedish: “Perspolis”
  • Tagalog: “Persepolis”
  • Tajik: “Тахти Ҷамшед”
  • Talysh: “Čəmšidi taxt”
  • Tamil: “பெர்சப்பொலிஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Персеполис”
  • Thai: “เปร์เซโปลิส”
  • Thai: “แพร์ซโพลิส”
  • Turkish: “Persepolis”
  • Turkish: “Taht-ı Cemşid”
  • Ukrainian: “Парса”
  • Ukrainian: “Персеполіс”
  • Ukrainian: “Персеполь”
  • Urdu: “تخت جمشید”
  • Uzbek: “Persepol”
  • Vietnamese: “Persepolis”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Persepolis”
  • Welsh: “Persepolis”
  • Western Panjabi: “تخت جمشید”
  • Wu Chinese: “波斯波利斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “波斯波利斯”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Persepolis”. Photo: Bernd81, CC BY-SA 4.0.