Shiraz
Shiraz (; , "Šīrāz", ) is the fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars Province (Old Persian as Pars). At the 2016 census, the population of the city was 1,869,001 and its built-up area with "Shahr-e Jadid-e Sadra" (Sadra New Town) was home to 1,565,572 inhabitants. Shiraz is located in the southwest of Iran on the "Rudkhaneye Khoshk" (The Dry River) seasonal river. It has a moderate climate and has been a regional trade center for over a thousand years. Shiraz is one of the oldest cities of ancient Persia.
History of Shiraz
There is mention of a city at Shiraz during the Sassanid era, (2nd to 6th century AD) in the 10th century geographical treatise "Hudud ul-'alam min al-mashriq ila al-maghrib", which reports the existence of two fire temples and a fortress called "Shahmobad". In the 14th century the "Nozhat ol-Qolub" of Hamdollah Mostowfi confirmed the existence of pre-Islamic settlements in Shiraz.