Siraf

Siraf (Persian: سیراف‎; also Romanized as Sīraf; Taheri (Arabic: سیراف‎, (Persian: طاهری) Romanized as Ţāherī and Tāhiri; also known as Bandar-e Sīraf, Bandar-e Ţāherī, Bandar-i Ţāhirī - "Bandar" meaning "Port" in Persian) is a city in the Central District of Kangan County, Bushehr Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 3,500, in 722 families. Siraf was according to a legend an ancient Sassanid port, destroyed around 970 AD, which was located on the north shore of the Persian Gulf in what is now the Iranian province of Bushehr. Its ruins are approximately 220 km east of Bushire and 380 km west of Bandar Abbas. Siraf controlled three ports: Bandar-e-Taheri, Bandar-e-Kangan and Bandar-e-Dayer. The Persian Gulf was used as...