Gonbad-e Kavus
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Persian: گنبد كاووس Turkmen: Kümmet Gowuz Gonbad-e Kavus |
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The tower is a remnant of Ziyarid architecture.
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 Persian: گنبد كاووس
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| Coordinates: 37°15′00″N 55°10′02″E / 37.25000°N 55.16722°ECoordinates: 37°15′00″N 55°10′02″E / 37.25000°N 55.16722°E | |
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 Iran
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| Province | Golestān Province |
| County | Gonbad-e Kavus |
| Bakhsh | Central |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 144,546 |
| Time zone | IRST (UTC+3:30) |
| • Summer (DST) | IRDT (UTC+4:30) |
| Gonbad-e Kavus at GEOnet Names Server | |
Gonbad-e Kāvus (Also referred to as Gonbad-e Kāvus, Gonbad-i Kāvoos, Gonbadekavoos, Gonbad-e Kāvūs, Gonbad Qābūs, Gonbad Qavoos, Gunbad-i-Kāwās, Gunbad-i-Kāwūs, and Gunbad-i-Kāvūs) (Persian: گنبد کاووس, Turkmen: Kümmet Gowuz) is the city known historically as Gorgan/Hyrcania. The modern name, meaning "the tower of Kavus", is a reference to the most imposing ancient monument in the city. The historic name cannot now be restored, as it was oddly and carelessly assigned to the neighboring historical city of Astarabad in the 1930s by the Iranian Government. At one point, it was even known as the city of Dashte Gorgan, meaning "the Plains of Gorgan".
It is the capital of Gonbad-e Kavus County, in the province of Golestān in the northeast of Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 127,167, in 30,710 families.
It is predominantly an ethnically Turkmen city, Turkmen being the spoken language, but with substantial minority of Azeris and other smaller Iranian people.
The city is famous for its historic brick tower of the same name. Iranian footballer Sardar Azmoun is from this city.
The "Divar-i Iskandar" (Persian for the "Wall of Alexander") or Qizil Alan (Turkmeni for "Red Snake") is a gigantic defensive wall built in the Sasanian period of Iranian history. The visible remains are about 155 km (96 mi) long and 6–10 m (20–33 ft) wide. It is one of the most outstanding and gigantic architectural monuments in northeast Iran and the most impressive in the Golestan Province. This wall, which is the largest defensive wall in the world after the Great Wall of China, starts from the Caspian sea coast, circles north of the city of Gonbad-e Kāvus, continues towards the northeast, and vanishes into the Pishkamar Mountains.
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