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Bushehr Province
استان بوشهر
Location
Map of Iran with Bushehr highlighted.
Info
Admin. Center:
 • Coordinates:		 Bushehr
 • 28.9184° N 50.8382° E
Area : 22,743 km²
Population(2005):
 • Density :		 816,115
 • 35. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Bushehr or Bushire ( Persian:بوشهر pop 165377 (in 2005) is a city on the southwestern coast of Iran, on the Persian Gulf Area is a Quantity expressing the two- Dimensional size of a defined part of a Surface, typically a region bounded by a closed Curve. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 9/km²
No. of Counties: 9
Time zone: UTC+3:30
Main language(s): Persian
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Bushehr (Persian:استان بوشهر) is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. The provinces of Iran further subdivided into counties called shahrestan ( Persian: شهرستان shahrestān) an area inside an ostan UTC+330 is used in Iran ( Iran Standard Time) This article deals with the languages found in Iran. The Iranian languages article deals with the linguistic branch of the Indo-European languages The Perso-Arabic script is a Writing system that is based on the Arabic alphabet. Iran is subdivided into thirty provinces ( Persian: استان ostān, plural استان‌ها ostānhā) each governed from a local center For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iran topics. It is in the south of the country, with a long coastline onto the Persian Gulf. The Persian Gulf, in the Southwest Asian region is an extension of the Its center is Bandar-e-Bushehr, the provincial capital. Bushehr or Bushire ( Persian:بوشهر pop 165377 (in 2005) is a city on the southwestern coast of Iran, on the Persian Gulf The province has seven counties: Bushehr, Dashti, Daylam, Kangan, Genaveh and Tangestan. Bushehr or Bushire ( Persian:بوشهر pop 165377 (in 2005) is a city on the southwestern coast of Iran, on the Persian Gulf Dasht is a Persian word Dashti means of belonging to or originating from Dasht Daylam (Sometimes Daylaman, Dailam or Delam) was a province of Persia, now part of Gīlān. In 2005, the province had a population of approximately 816,115 people.

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History

The Greeks knew of Bushehr by Mezambria during the battles of Nearchus. Nearchus (or Nearchos) (c 360 - 300 BC was one of the officers a Navarch, in the army of Alexander the Great. A French excavating team however in 1913 determined the origin of Bushehr to date back to the Elamite Empire. Elam is the name of an ancient civilization located in what is now southwest Iran. A city there, known as Lyan, contained a templethat was designed to protect the compound from naval attacks. Its remains can still be seen today 10 kilometers south of the present city of Bushehr.

A key turning point in the history of Bor event of significance is known to have taken place in this region until the arrival of the European colonialists in the 16th century.

The Portuguese, invaded the city of Bushehr in 1506 and remained there until Shah Abbas Safavi successfully defeated and liberated the Persian Gulf region of their presence. The Portuguese people (os Portugueses literally the Portuguese) are the Ethnic group or Nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west Shāh ‘Abbās I or Shāh ‘Abbās the Great ( (born January 27, 1571; died January 19, 1629) was Shah of Iran and the most eminent By 1734, Bushehr had once again risen to prominence due to Nadir Shah of the Afsharid dynasty, and his military policies in The Persian Gulf. Nāder Shāh Afshār ( also known as Nāder Qoli Beg - نادر قلی بیگ or Tahmāsp Qoli Khān - تهماسپ قلی خان) (November The Afsharids (سلسله افشار were an Iranian dynasty of Turkic descent from Khorasan that ruled the Persian Empire in the 18th century

Bushehr was selected by Nadir to be the central base of Nadir's Naval fleet in the Persian Gulf. He thus changed the name of the city to Bandar e Nadiriyeh (Nadir's Port). He hired an Englishman by the name of John Elton to help build his fleet. Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947 is an English pop / rock Singer, Composer Dutch accounts report his naval fleet to have amounted to 8000-10000 personnel as well as several ship construction installations.

After Nadir's death, the Dutch continued to have good commercial relations in Bushehr, until the British made their debut in Bushehr in 1763 by a contract they signed with Karim Khan of the Zand dynasty. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Karim Khan Zand, ( کریم خان زند) (c 1705- 1779 also called Karim Khan the Great (Bozorg was the ruler and De facto Shah of Iran The Zand dynasty ( (سلسله زندیه ruled southern and central Iran ( 1750 &ndash 1794) in the eighteenth century By then, the city of Bushehr had become Iran's major port city in the Persian Gulf. The Persian Gulf, in the Southwest Asian region is an extension of the By the Qajar era, Britain, Norway, Russia, Italy, France, Germany, and the Ottomans had diplomatic and commercial offices there, with Britain steadily gaining a foothold in the area. The Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a State in northwest Europe, in existence from 1707 to 1800 Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Close to 100 British ships are reported to have docked at the port city every year during the Qajar era.

Bushehr today

Aside from the revived port city of Bushehr, which is the second main naval port of Iran after Bandar Abbas, Bushehr also has come back recently in the spotlight for three main reasons:

Kharg Island (Khark Island)

During the Iran-Iraq war, Iran's major petroleum But even Kharg was not immune from Iraqi air raids. Bushehr or Bushire ( Persian:بوشهر pop 165377 (in 2005) is a city on the southwestern coast of Iran, on the Persian Gulf Bandar Abbas or Bandar-e ‘Abbās (in Persian: بندر عباس formerly known as Gombroon to English Kharg Island ( is a continental island in the Persian Gulf belonging to Iran. Today there is found a new stone from achaemenidian time where is thre achaemedian language

Bushehr Nuclear Reactor

Main article. The nuclear program of Iran was launched in the 1950s with the help of the United States as part of the Atoms for Peace program

The Bushehr Light water PWR Nuclear Reactor, designed by Siemens AG, built by the Russians, is Iran's first Nuclear Reactor. This article is a subarticle of Nuclear power. A nuclear reactor is a device in which Nuclear chain reactions are initiated controlled

The industrial corridor of Assalouyeh

As many as 70,000 foreign engineers and technicians are currently working in this industrial zone 270 kilometers south of the provincial capital. Asalouyeh (عسلویه also transcribed Assalouyeh and Assaluyeh, and sometimes prefixed by bandar, meaning port is a town in southern Iran This zone is where the nearby famous South Pars Gas field is located, where Iran has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure. The South Pars Gas field is the world's largest natural gas field.

The Assalouyeh industrial zone is deemed so lucrative that even American companies such as American Allied International Corp and Halliburton have bypassed American sanctions to become somehow involved in the zone. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Halliburton Energy Services ( is a US -based Multinational corporation with operations in more than 70 countries [1]

Colleges and universities

Some attractions of Bushehr

Despite its unique potentials, Bushehr remains to be developed for absorbing tourists and seriously lacks the necessary investment for tourism. Bushehr University of Medical Sciences (BPUMS is a medical school in Bushehr Province of Iran. Persian Gulf University is a university in Bushehr Province of Iran. The city of Bushehr has 3-star hotels, an airport, and modern amenities. The Cultural heritage Organization of Iran lists up to 45 sites of historical and cultural significance in the province. Some are listed below:

Literature

Bushehr has been home to some famous poets. Among them are Faiez Dashti (1830-1919) and Manouchehr Atashi. Manouchehr Atashi ( ( September 25, 1931 - November 20, 2005 born in 1931 in Dashtestan, Bushehr province was a Persian Faiez poems, and dashti literature in genral, resemble Baba Taher's works. Baba Taher, (var Baba Tahir, in Persian: بابا طاهر was an 11th century Persian poet and mystic Sadeq Chubak and Najaf Daryabandari are among the most prominent writers in literature of Bushehr. Sādeq Chubak (صادق چوبک sometimes Sādegh Choubak, ( August 5 1916 &mdash July 3 1998) was an author of short fiction

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