Photos by
Abdollah Moradi , ISNA
استقبال مسافران نوروزي از
طاق بستان - كرمانشاه
Taq-e Bostan is a series of large rock relief from the era of Sassanid
Empire of Persia, the Iranian dynasty which ruled western Asia from 226 to 650
AD. This example of Sassanid art is located 5 km from the city center of
Kermanshah in western Iran. It is located in the heart of the Zagros mountains,
where it has endured almost 1,700 years of wind and rain.
Kermanshah
Province is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. It is in the west of the
country, bordering Iraq. Between 1979 and the 1990s, the province was
known as Bakhtaran.
Its capital Kermanshah is located 525 km from Tehran in the western part
of Iran and about 120 km from the border of Iraq. Kermanshah has a
continental climate. The estimated population of the city is
822,921(year 2005) and the majority of the inhabitants speak Persian as
well as Kurdish.
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