Qasr-e Shirin

Qasr-e Shirin (Kurdish: Qesri Shírín, قه‌سرشیرین, Persian: قصرشيرين; also Romanized as Qaşr-e Shīrīn, Ghasr-ī-shīrīn, Ghasr-shīrīn, and Qasr-ī-Shīrīn) is a city in and the capital of Qasr-e Shirin County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 15,437, in 3,893 families. The name of the city literally means the Palace of Şîrîn (common Indo-Iranian female name which means Sweet). The city was a metropolitan during Sassanid dynastic era (226-651 AD). Ghasr-e Shírín a city with over 2000 years of history was famous for being the city of love. Khosrow II (590 to 628 AD) the twenty-second king of Sassanid dynasty built a castle for his lifelong beloved Shirin in the city. The folklore has it that Shirin was the...