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: ancient city in Marvdasht County, Iranian national heritage site and World heritage site
  • Also known as: “Čehel Menāra”, “Chehel Menar”, “Chel Menar”, “Chelmenar”, “Chihil Minar”, “Chihilminar”, “Chil Minar”, “Chilminar”, “Chilminara”, “Cihilminar”, “Cihilminār”, “Mint of Persepolis”, “Palacio de Persepolis”, “Palacio de Persépolis”, “Palatset i Persepolis”, “Palatskomplexet i Persepolis”, “Parsa”, “Pârsâ”, “Parseh”, “Perspolis”, “Pertsepolis”, “Perzepol”, “Perzopolis”, “Taht-ı Cemşid”, “Takht-e Jamshid”, “Takht-e Jamshīd”, “Takht-e-Jamshid”, “Takht-i-Jamshīd”, “Tchelminar”, “Tehelminar”, “Ισταχάρ”, “Παρς”, “Персепаль”, “Персепол”, “Персеполіс”, “برسپولس”, “برسيبوليس”, “پارسه”, “تخت‌جمشيد”, “تخت‌جمشید”, “چل منار”, “چهل منار”, “صدستون”, “هزارستون”, and “贝尔塞波利斯”
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Places of Interest

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

Ruins
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, also known as the Gate…

Ruins
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The Tachara, or the Tachar Château, also referred…

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kenareh.

Village
is a village in, and the capital of, … is situated 3½ km southwest of Persepolis.

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: “برسبوليس”
  • Arabic: “تخت جمشيد”
  • Armenian: “Պերսեպոլիս”
  • Asturian: “Persépolis”
  • Azerbaijani: “Persepolis”
  • Bashkir: “Персеполь”
  • Basque: “Persepolis”
  • Belarusian: “Персепаліс”
  • Belarusian: “Пэрсэпаліс”
  • Bengali: “পার্সেপোলিস”
  • Breton: “Persepolis”
  • Bulgarian: “Персеполис”
  • Burmese: “ပါဆီပိုးလစ်”
  • Catalan: “Persèpolis”
  • Cebuano: “Persepolis”
  • Central Kurdish: “پەرسپۆلیس”
  • Chinese: “波斯波利斯”
  • Croatian: “Perzepolis”
  • Czech: “Persepolis”
  • Danish: “Persepolis”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Persepolis”
  • Dutch: “Persepolis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تختى جمشيد”
  • Esperanto: “Persepolo”
  • Finnish: “Persepolis”
  • French: “Persépolis”
  • Galician: “Persépole”
  • Georgian: “პერსეპოლისი”
  • German: “Persepolis”
  • Greek: “Περσέπολη”
  • Hebrew: “פרספוליס”
  • Hindi: “पर्सेपोलिस”
  • Hungarian: “Perszepolisz”
  • Icelandic: “Persepólis”
  • Indonesian: “Persepolis”
  • Irish: “Peirseapoil”
  • Italian: “Persepoli”
  • 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: “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: “تخت جمشید”
  • Polish: “Persepolis”
  • Portuguese: “Persépolis”
  • Pushto: “د جمشید پلاز”
  • Romanian: “Persepolis”
  • Russian: “Персеполь”
  • Scots: “Persepolis”
  • Serbian: “Persepolj”
  • Serbian: “Персепољ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Persepolis”
  • Sicilian: “Persepolis”
  • Sindhi: “تخت جمشيد”
  • Slovak: “Perzepolis”
  • Slovenian: “Perzepolis”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پرسپولیس”
  • Spanish: “Persépolis”
  • Swahili: “Persepolis”
  • Swedish: “Persepolis”
  • Tagalog: “Persepolis”
  • Tajik: “Тахти Ҷамшед”
  • Talysh: “Čəmšidi taxt”
  • Tamil: “பெர்சப்பொலிஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Персеполис”
  • Thai: “เปร์เซโปลิส”
  • Thai: “แพร์ซโพลิส”
  • Turkish: “Persepolis”
  • Ukrainian: “Парса”
  • 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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