Castle in Kaleybar County, Iranian national heritage site
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Babak Fort
بابک قالاسی
Near Kalibar City in Iran
Babak Castle
Type
Citadel
Pāpak Fort (Persian: بابک قالاسی: ترکی آذربایجانی) or Babak Castle[1] (Persian: قلعه بابک), ″Ghal’eh-e Baz″ is a large citadel on the top of a mountain in the Arasbaran forests, 50 km from Ahar, one parasang from Ardabil, 6 km southwest of Kalibar City in northwestern Iran.[2][3] According to Ibn al- Nadim, it was the stronghold of Javidhan and Babak Khorramdin, the leaders of the Khurramites in Iranian Azerbaijan who fought the Islamic caliphate of Abbassids.[1][4] The fort was conquered and ruined by Afshin′s army in 837.[5][6][7][8]
^ abBurke, Andrew and Elliott. Mark (2008) Iran Lonely Planet, Footscray, Victoria, Australia, page 159, ISBN 978-1-74104-293-1
^Scot Aghaie, Kamran; Marashi, Afshin (2014). Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292757493.
^Ubaydallah Ibn Khordadbeh, Abu al-Qasim (1990). Kitab Al-Masalik wa al-Mamalik (كتاب المسالك و الممالك) Book of the Roads and Kingdoms. Dar Sader. ISBN 978-9953135458.
^ibn Isḥāq Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad (1872). Müller, August (ed.). Kitâb al-Fihrist. F. C. W. Vogel.
^Crone, Patricia (2012). The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139510769.
Pāpak Fort (Persian: بابک قالاسی: ترکی آذربایجانی) or Babak Castle (Persian: قلعه بابک), ″Ghal’eh-e Baz″ is a large citadel on the top of a mountain...
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Khurshah to order his followers to surrender, but Lambsar fort, Gerdkuh fort and Alamut fort did not follow the order. Finally after a year of resisting...
he had probably reached in 803. Following the launch of the rebellion of Babak Khorramdin in 816/17, the people sought shelter in Maragheh. The caliph...
v t e Castles in Iran East Azerbaijan Arg of Tabriz Avarsin Castle BabakFort Bakhtak Leylan Castle Dokhtaran Castle Hulagu Khan Castle Poshtab Castle...
and Sights Amir Nezam House Arasbaran Arg of Tabriz Azerbaijan Museum BabakFort Bazaar of Tabriz Blue Mosque, Tabriz Eynali Quri-gol Haidar Zadeh house...
Khurramites, led by Babak Khorramdin, staged a persistent revolt. Babak's victories over Arab generals were associated with his seizure of BabakFort, according...
resistance against invaders and easily competes with the fortifications of BabakFort in Kaleybar and Alamut Castle in Alamut. This shows that the builders...
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