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Encyclopedia Britannica



FIRUZABAD

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 425 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FIRUZABAD , a town of Persia, in the province of Fars, 72 M. S. of Shiraz, in 28 51' N. Pop. about 3000. It is situated in a fertile plain, 15 m. long and 7 M. broad, well watered by the river Khoja which flows through it from north to
south
 . The town is surrounded by a mud
wall
  and ditch. Three or four miles north-west of the town are the ruins of the ancient city and of a large building popularly known as the fire-temple of Ardashir, and beyond them on the face of the
rock
  in the gorge through which the river enters the plain are two
Sassanian
  bas-reliefs.
The river leaves the plain by a narrow gorge at the southern end, and according to Persian history it was there that Alexander the
Great
 , when unable to capture the ancient city, built a dike across the gorge, thus damming up the water of the river and turning the plain into a lake and submerging the city and villages. The lake remained until the beginning of the 3rd century, when Ardashir, the first
Sassanian
  monarch, drained it by destroying the dike. He built a new city, called it Gar, and made it the
capital
  of one of the five
great
  provinces or divisions of Fars. Firuz (or Peroz, q.v.), one of Ardashir's successors, called the
district
  after his name Firazabad (" theabode of Firuz "), but the name of the city remained Gar until Azud ed Dowleh (Adod addaula) (949982) changed it to its present name. He did this because he frequently resided at Gar, and the name meaning also " a grave " gave rise to unpleasant allusions, for instance, " People who go to Gar (grave) never return alive; our king goes to Gar (the town) several times a year and is not dead yet."
The
district
  has twenty villages and produces much wheat and
rice
 . It is said that the
rice
  of Firazabad bears sixty-fold. (A. H.-S.)


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