Marvdasht

Marvdasht is a city and the capital of Marvdasht County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population became 123,858, in 29,134 families. Marvdasht is as historic because the records of Iran and the Persian empire. Its former capital Persepolis is inside the area of the metropolis, and few kilometers farther Naqsh-e-Rostam, Naqsh-e Rajab and the ruins of the historic city of Estakhr are reminiscent of the vicinity's significance in historic instances.

Archeological excavations have shown that civilized human beings had already been dwelling inside the Marvdasht Plains for millennia while Darius chose the plains of mount Rahmat for his royal residence. The current metropolis of Marvdasht turned into constructed inside the 20th century. After the Pahlavi authorities constructed a sugar factory in 1935, the city gradually developed across the manufacturing facility: More and extra humans left the nearby villages or abandoned their nomadic lifestyles to settle within the developing city.

People from farther areas additionally migrated to the city. In the years earlier than the Islamic Revolution Marvdasht have become the maximum essential business town of Fars province, as other factories which includes the petrochemical complex, Azmayesh, the Charmineh leather factory, the Fars meat complex and the Dadli biscuit corporation were built. These required a massive body of workers, and the populace of Marvdasht extended till it have become the second one maximum populated metropolis in Fars province.