Geographic
location and Cilmate
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With 27,653 square kilometers, and with 60 kilometers sea border, the province of Bushehr is located on the south-west of Iran and on the Persian Gulf. Thus this province has remarkable strategic importance for the country and the whole region. |
The province is consisted of 7 districts which are: Bushehr, Dashti, Daylam, Kangan, Genaveh and Tangistan. The provincial capital and the administrative center of the province is the city of Bushehr. The geographical structure of the province divides the province into two different areas, the plain on the weast and south - west and the mountainous on the north and nort-east. The plain is straited on the Persian Gulf cost, and in includes most of cities and towns. The mountainous area is formed by two mountain chaines, Gach Tursh and Noukand, which form two paralel straited mountain. |
Bushehr and its History
The good and strategic location of city of Bushehr has been the main reason for the establishment of the port of Bushehr by the Hamid kings, many years before the Crise. The Acaemenid turned Bushehr to by a section of the Pars Satrap(state). |
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It is obvious that the Persian Gulfand consiquenly the province of Bushehr enjoyes a remarkable situation with trade in addition to its remarkable situation regarding military affairs, so it is magnificeint for the government and the people for its importance regarding wealth knowledge, political relations and hegemony. For these reasons, the Europeans were interested to take controle on the region and the city of Bushehr in particular. the portigous, therefore, invaded the city of Bushehr in 1506 and attempted to take the place of the Egiptian and the Vinecian traders who were dominant in the region. In 1031 AH (After Hidjret), Shah Abbas Safavi united with the English against the Portigous, that resulted to throwing them out of the Persian Gulf. In 1148 AH, Nader Shah Afshar started the development of Bushehr which was just a village then. He turned Bushehr to a big port in the region and facilitated it with modern equipments. He also established a factory for ship building there, so at the end of the Nader era, there were 23 to 25 ship belong to the Iranian government in the Persian Gulf. |
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During the Zand era, the region was a place for political chalenges between diffirent political groups. When the Qajar dynasty replaced the Zandists, |
they gaind less control on the region of the Persian Gulf, so the British influence in the region increased gradualy.The Councolate General of Britain governed Bushehr for 20 years. This situation had lasted till 1913, and during the long battle between the Iranians and the British troops, the Iranians lost in 1857 and the British influence expanded to include all the Persian Gulf cost. But in 1913 the Iranians won the long battle. |
Historical Monuments
under the reble Iranian commander, Raies Ali Delvari, who was the commander of the Tahgistan brave troop. Qala Holandiha (the Duch Castle), Mabad Pozeidoon |
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(The Sea God Temper), Gurestan Bastani(the ancient cemetry), Imamzadeh Mir Mohammed Hanifeh, Aramgah (tomp) Haj Mohammed Ibraheem Esfahani and the Old Church which is located in the Khark Island. Ab Anbar (water store) Qavam, Khaneh Qadimi (old hous) Qazi, Maqbareh (tomb) the English General, Gurestan (cemetry) Shaab, Masjd (Mosque) Shaykh Sadoon and Klisay Maseeh Moqaddas (the Holy Crist Church). Khaneh (the house of) Raies Ali Delvari which is located 45 kilometers of Bushehr.
Emarat Qadimi (the Old Building) Malik which is located 5 kilometers to Bushehr. Mantaqeh Bastani(the old site) of Ray Shahr which is located 8 kilometers south to Bushehr. Aramgah (tomb) abdul mohaymrn which is locatted close the old to Ray Shahr. Emaret (big building) Darya Baygui, Khaneh (house) Dehdashti, Emaret Mirath Farhangi (cultural heritage), Emaret Shahrdari (the municipality bulding), Emaret Kazerooni and the quarter centers of Shabandi and Bihbahani Bushehr. |
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