Arak

Arak (Persian: اراك‎, also Romanized as Arāk and ‘Irāq; formerly, Solţānābād and Sultānābād) is a city in and the capital of Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 480,560, in 121,597 families. Arak is built on the ruins of a small town called Daskerah, which was destroyed during the Mongol invasion of Persia. Modern Arak is a relatively new city on fertile lands, reestablished in 1795 with primary construct ending in 1852. The new city was founded and financed during the Qajar era by an Iranian Georgian Yusef Khan Gorji, a pro-Iranian Georgian warlord given refuge by Agha Mohammad Khan (Persian: محمد خان قاجار)‎‎ (1742–1797) following a territorial dispute with his cousins who were supported by Imperial Russian...