Persepolis/Parsa/Persai/Sat Setun

settlement · 550 BC – 2100 AD

Persepolis/Parsa/Persai/Sat Setun was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire. The origins of the settlement belong to the sixth century BC (ca. 515). The archaeological site was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.

Coordinates

29.93520, 52.89043

Also known as

Parsa (fas), Parsa, Peirseapoil, Persai, Persepalis, Persepol, Persepol', Persepole, Persepoli (ita), Persepolis, Persepolis, Persepoliscon Mercium persarum (la), Persepoliscon Mercivm persarvm (la), Persepolisy, Persepolo, Persepolïs, Persepólis, Persépolis (por), Sat Setun, Tacht-e Dschamschid (fas), Takht-i Jamshīd (fa), Περσέπολη (ell), Персеполис (rus), تخت جمشید (fas), تخت جمشید (fa), 波斯波利斯 (zho), 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (fas), 𐭮𐭲𐭮𐭲𐭥𐭭𐭩 (fas)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• iDAI.gazetteer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) · CC BY
  iDAI.gazetteer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (CC BY)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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