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The city of Shiraz, Iran is more than 4000 years old. ==Pre-Islamic times== Shiraz lies in Pars Province, a central area for Persian civilisation. The massive ruins of the Persian Empire's grand palace Persepolis, about 2500 years old, are about 60 km northeast of . Piruzapad, and Pasargadae are other nearby historic settlements. The earliest reference to Shiraz is on Elamite clay tablets dated to 2000 BC, found in June 1970 during digging for the construction of a brick kiln in the southwest corner of the city. The tablets, written in ancient Elamite, name a city called ''Tiraziš''.〔Cameron, George G. ''Persepolis Treasury Tablets'', University of Chicago Press, 1948, pp. 115.〕 Phonetically, this is interpreted as /tiračis/ or /ćiračis/. This name became Old Persian /širājiš/; through regular sound change comes the modern Persian name ''Shirāz''. The name Shiraz also appears on clay sealings found at ''Qasr-i Abu Nasr'', a Sassanid ruin, east of the city, (2nd century AD). As early as the 11th century several hundred thousand people inhabited Shiraz. Its size has decreased through the ages. Cuneiform records from Persepolis show that Shiraz was a significant township in Achaemenid times.〔("Fárs and Shíráz" )〕 There is mention of a city at Shiraz during the Sassanid era, (2nd to 6th century AD) in the 10th century geographical treatise ''Hudud ul-'alam min al-mashriq ila al-maghrib'', which reports the existence of two fire temples and a fortress called "Shahmobad". In the 14th century the ''Nozhat ol-Qolub'' of Hamdollah Mostowfi confirmed the existence of pre-Islamic settlements in Shiraz. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Shiraz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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