Qasr-e Shirin
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Qasr-e Shirin قصرشيرين |
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 Qasr-e Shirin
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| Coordinates: 34°30′56″N 45°34′45″E / 34.51556°N 45.57917°ECoordinates: 34°30′56″N 45°34′45″E / 34.51556°N 45.57917°E | |
| Country |
 Iran
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| Province | Kermanshah |
| County | Qasr-e Shirin |
| Bakhsh | Central |
| Established date | 7th century |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ebrahim Nazari |
| Elevation | 333 m (1,093 ft) |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 15,437 |
| • Demonym | Qasri |
| Time zone | IRST (UTC+3:30) |
| • Summer (DST) | IRDT (UTC+4:30) |
| Postal code | 67817 |
| Area code(s) | 0835 |
Qasr-e Shirin (Kurdish: Qesirî Şîrîn, Persian: قصرشيرين; also Romanized as Qaşr-e Shīrīn and Qasr-ī-Shīrīn; also known as Ghasr-ī-shīrīn and Ghasr-shīrīn) is a city in and the capital of Qasr-e Shirin County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 15,437, in 3,893 families.
The name of the city literally means Castle of Shirin in Persian. Shirin (meaning beauty/sweet) is the name of the wife of Khosrau II, king of the Sasanian Empire.
The city was a metropolitan during Sassanid dynastic era (226-651 AD). Ghasr-e Shírín a city with over 2000 years of history was famous for being the city of love. Khosrow II (590 to 628 AD) the twenty-second king of Sassanid dynasty built a castle for his lifelong beloved Shirin in the city. The folklore has it that Shirin was the daughter of the Queen of Armenia who fell in love with the Sassanid King. Shirin followed her love Khosrow and settled in Ghasr-e Shirin, before sending a messenger to the King in Ctesiphon informing him of her move. The king decided to build a palace for his beloved Shirin. The story of this love has become the most famous classics in Kurdish and Persian literature, and the great Persian poet Nizami has created his epic tragedies Kosrow-vo-Shirin (Khosrow and Shirin) and Shirin-o-Farhad (Shirin and Farhad), based on the two different versions of love, one characterized by happiness, glory and power, and the other by sadness, struggle, and purity. The rivalry between the powerful king who was victorious in his wars with the Byzantine empire and Farhad a master stone carver, who carved the palace of Shirin on the hard rocks of Mount Bistun and fell in love with the queen provides a pretext for Nizami to explore various psychological, spiritual, and philosophical aspects of the human tragedy.
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