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Persepolis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

G. Stott
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Forty miles north-east of Shiraz, in the Mervdasht plain near the confluence of the Bandamir and Pulvar rivers, stand the palaces of Persepolis on a spur of the little mountain Kuh-i-Rahmet. Across the valley to the west at Husein Kuh are the tombs of the kings. Farther up the Pulvar, at Istakhr, are the barren ruins of the town of Persepolis; and at a spot twenty miles to the north-east (but forty by the windings of the Pulvar) Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian Empire, built his residential capital, Pasargadae.

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Research Article
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Greece & Rome , Volume 7 , Issue 20 , February 1938 , pp. 65 - 75
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1938

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