Karaj

Karaj is the capital of Alborz Province, Iran, and effectively a suburb of Tehran. Although the county hosts a population around 1.97 million, as recorded in the 2016 census, maximum of the 1,419 squarekm county is rugged mountain, the urban place is the fourth-biggest in Iran, after Tehran, Mashhad, and Isfahan. Eshtehard County and Fardis County were break up off from Karaj county because the preceding census. The earliest information of Karaj date again to thirtieth century BC.

The town turned into developed below the rule of the Safavid and Qajar dynasties, and is domestic to historic homes and memorials from the ones eras. Until the second one half of of the 20th century, it used to be acknowledged especially as a summer time resort. Today, it is a primary industrial metropolis, with factories producing sugar, textiles, cord, and alcohol. Karaj has been hosting groups due to the fact 3000 years BC. The Khurvin location of Karaj has been inhabited for the reason that Bronze Age, and the Kelak region on the left bank of Karaj River since the Iron Age.

The stone constructed Takht-e Rostam, located on a mount in the west of Shahriar County, was built inside the Parthian technology as a Zoroastrian fireplace temple. Until the late twentieth century, the town became specially crossed into by using a stone bridge constructed in the Safavid era. The stone constructed Shah-Abbasi Caravansary, placed on the southeast of Towhid Square, was constructed inside the identical generation, beneath the guideline of Sah Esmaail.