Shiraz ?????
Tomb o resident 14t-century poet Hafiz
Eik-name(s):  Persie Cultural Caipital Ceety o roses Ceety o gardens Ceety o flouer an nichtingale
Shiraz Location o Shiraz in Iran
Coordinates: 29°37′N 52°32′E  /  29.617°N 52.533°E  / 29.617; 52.533
Kintra	Iran
Province	Fars
Coonty	Shiraz
Bakhsh	Central
Govrenment
? Mayor	Mehran E'temadi [1]
? Ceety cooncil	Zein Al Abedin Arab Sayed Mohammad Kazem Dastgheyb Ezat Allah Fahandezh Sa'adi Fatemeh Hooshmand Mehdi Khani Sayed Mohsen Moein Mozaffar Mokhtari Sayed Saeed Moosavi Ali Zahmat Kesh Ma'asoomeh Zare'e Shobeir Zare'e Khafri [2]
Area [ citation needit ]
? Total	178.891 km 2 (69.07 sq mi)
? Laund	178.891 km 2 (69.07 sq mi)
? Water	0 km 2 (0 sq mi)  0%
Elevation	1,500 m (5,200 ft)
Population   (2009)
? Total	1,455,073
? Density	3,609.8/km 2 (9347.5/sq mi)
	Population Data: 2006 Census was 1,214,808, in 315,725 families [3] 2009 Municipality was 1,455,073 [4]
Time zone	UTC+3:30 ( IRST )
Area code(s)	0711
Routes	Road 65 Road 67 Road 86 Futur Shiraz-Isfahan Freeway
Website	http://www.shiraz.ir/

Shiraz ( listen   ( help · info ) Persie : ????? ‎ Persie pronunciation:  [?iː?r?ːz] ) is the saxt maist populous ceety in Iran ^[5] an is the caipital o Fars Province . Shiraz is locatit in the soothwast o Iran on the Rudkhaneye Khoshk saisonal river. Shiraz haes a moderate climate an haes been a regional tred centre for mair nor ane thoosan years.

The earliest reference tae the ceety, as Tirazi? , is on Elamite clay tablets datit tae 2000 BC. ^[6] In the 13t century, Shiraz became a leadin centre o the airts an letters, thanks tae the encouragement o its ruler an the presence o mony Persian scholars an airtists. Shiraz wis the caipital o Persie durin the Zand dynasty frae 1750 till 1781, as well as briefly durin the Saffarid period .

Shiraz is kent as the ceety o poets, wine an flouers. ^[7] The wird "shir" in Persian means "lion", but it coud an an mean "milk". It is an aa considered bi mony Iranians tae be the ceety o gardens, due tae the mony gardens an fruit trees that can be seen in the ceety. Shiraz haes haed major Jewish an Christian communities. The crafts o Shiraz conseest o inlaid mosaic wirk o triangular design; siller-ware; pile cairpet-weavin an weavin o kilim , cried gilim an jajim in the veelages an amang the tribes. ^[8] In Shiraz industries sic as cement production, succar, fertilizers, textile products, wid products, metalwirk an rugs dominate. ^[9] Shir?z an aa haes a major ile refinery an is an aa a major centre for Iran's electronic industries: 53% o Iran's electronic investment haes been centred in Shiraz. ^[10] Shiraz is hame tae Iran's first solar pouer plant . ^[11]

Twin touns ? sister ceeties [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

• Chongqing , Cheenae
• Nicosia , Cyprus
• Dushanbe , Tajikistan
• Weimar , Germany
• Malacca Ceety , Malaysie

References [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

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