Firouzabad

Firuzabad (Persian: فيروزآباد also Romanized as Fīrūzābād; anciently, Sassanid Middle Persian Ardasher-Khwarrah – اردشيرخوره, meaning "The Glory of Ardasher") is a city in and the capital of Firuzabad County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 58,210, in 12,888 families. Firuzabad is located south of Shiraz. The town is surrounded by a mud wall and ditch. Alexander of Macedonia destroyed the original city of Gōr. Centuries later, Ardashir I, founder of the Sassanid Dynasty, revived the city before it was ransacked during the Arab invasion of the seventh century. Firuzabad is situated in a low-lying area of the region, so Alexander was able to drown the city by directing the flow of a river into the city. The...