Firuzabad is a town of south-central Iran, in the province of Fars, 72 mi. S. of Shiraz, in 28° 51' N. Pop. (1986) 34,433. It is situated in a fertile plain, 15 mi. long and 7 mi. broad, well watered by the river Khoja which flows through it from north to south. The town is surrounded by a mud wall and ditch. Three or four miles north-west of the town are the ruins of the ancient city and of a large building popularly known as the fire-temple of Ardashir I, and beyond them on the face of the rock in the gorge through which the river enters the plain are two Sassanian bas-reliefs. The river leaves the plain by a narrow gorge at the southern end, and according to Persian history it was there that Alexander the Great, when unable to capture the ancient city, built a dike across the gorge, thus damming up the water of the river and turning the plain into a lake and submerging the city and villages. The lake remained until the beginning of the 3rd century, when Ardashir, the first Sassanian monarch, drained it by destroying the dike. He built a new city, called it Gar, and made it the capital of one of the five great provinces or divisions of Fars. Firuz (or Peroz), one of Ardashir's successors, called the district after his name Firuzabad ("the abode of Firuz"), but the name of the city remained Gar until Azud ed Dowleh (Adod addaula) (949–982) changed it to its present name. He did this because he frequently resided at Gar, and the name meaning also "a grave" gave rise to unpleasant allusions, for instance, "People who go to Gar (grave) never return alive; our king goes to Gar (the town) several times a year and is not dead yet." The district has twenty villages and produces much wheat and rice. It is said that the rice of Firuzabad has born sixty-fold. // Introduction Fars is one of the 30 provinces of Iran. ... Shiraz can refer to: Shiraz, Iran Shiraz grape/wine This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Beginning Some 600 years ago a missionary by the name of Pir Sadruddin arrived in Sindh in India. ... Ardashir I (Artaxerxes, Artaxares, Artashastra) was the founder of the Sassanian Empire of Persia and king from around 226 until around 240. ... Head of king Shapur II (Sasanian dynasty A.D. 4th century). ... Jump to: navigation, search Alexander the Great fighting the Persian king Darius (Pompeii mosaic, from a 3rd century BC original Greek painting, now lost). ... // Events The Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east. ... Jump to: navigation, search Species Atractosteus spatula Atractosteus tristoechus Atractosteus tropicus Lepisosteus oculatus Lepisosteus osseus Lepisosteus platostomus Lepisosteus platyrhincus In American English the name gar (or garpike) is strictly applied to members of the Lepisosteidae, a family including seven living species in two genera that inhabit fresh, brackish, and occasionally...

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