The Chehel Sotoun Palace was built around the 11th century AH in the center of gardens and complex buildings and palaces of ...

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Esther’s Eastern milieu, exotic to Dutch artists and patrons then trading with the Safavid Empire, was an attractive subject ...

This green oasis was established under the orders of Shah Ismail I, the founder of the Safavid dynasty. Though much of the original garden has vanished over time, the surrounding park remains one of ...

Suleiman's tughra could be seen as far as the Persian border, where their great rival in the east, the Shia Safavid Empire, was always trying to challenge the Ottomans; in North Africa ...

The Seljuk rulers (1038-1194) added two iwans to the north, while the Safavid dynasty (1501-1732) contributed the southern and western iwans, along with arcades. The Qajar period (1779-1924) saw ...

Today we are in Iran, with the ruling Safavid Dynasty, and with a portable declaration of faith. The Safavid Dynasty came to power in 1501, and it established Shi'a Islam as the state religion of ...