Location
and Climate
With 27,653 square kilometers, and with 60 kilometers
sea border, the province of Bushehr is located on the
south - west of Iran and an 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
west and south - west and the mountainous on the north
and north - east. The plain is striated on the Persian
Gulf cost, and it includes most of cities and towns.
The mountainous area is formed by two mountain chaines,
Gach Tursh and Noukand, which form two parallel
striated mountain.
During
the Zand era, the region was a place for political
challenges between different political groups. When
the Qajar dynasty replaced the Zandists, they gain
less control on the region of the Persian Gulf, so the
British influence in the region increased gradually.
The Consulate General of British governed Bushehr for
20 years. This situation had lasted till 1913, and
during the long battle between the Iranian 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 rebel Iranian commander, Raies Ali Delvari, who
was the commander of the Tahgistan brave troop. Qala
Holandiha (the Duch Castle), Mabad Pozeidoon (The Sea
God Temper), Gurestan Bastani (the ancient cemetry),
Imamzadeh Mir Mohammed Hanifeh, Aramgah (tomb) Haj
Mohammed Ibraheem Esfahani and the Old Church which is
located in the Khark Island. Ab Anbar (water store)
Qavam, Khaneh Qadimi (old house) Qazi, Maqbareh (tomb)
the English General, Gurestan (cemetry) Shaab, Masjd
(Mosque) Shaykh Saddon 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) Abdol Mohaymrn which is located close
the old to Ray Shahr.
Emaret
(big building) Darya Baygui, Khaneh (house) Dehdashti,
Emaret Mirat Farhangi (cultural heritage), Emaret
Shahrdari (the municipality building), Emaret
Kazerooni and the quarter centers of Shabandi and
Bihbahani Bushehr.
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BUSHEHR
AND ITS HISTORY
The
strategic location of city of Bushehr has been the
main reason for the establishment of the port of
Bushehr by the Hamid kings, more than two millennium
ago. The Acaemenid turned Bushehr to a section of the
Pars Satrap (state).
It is obvious that the Persian Gulf and consequently
the province of Bushehr enjoys a remarkable situation
with trade in addition to its remarkable situation
regarding military affairs. For these reasons the
Europeans were interested to take control of the
region and the city of Bushehr. The Portugese, invaded
the city of Bushehr in 1506 and attempted to take the
place of the Egyptian 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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