Firuzabad

Firuzabad فيروزآباد|Firouzābād is a city of the center of the Iran in the province of the Fars. The city is located at 115 km of Shiraz.

The city is located in a fertile plain of more than 20 km length and 11 km broad, irrigated by the river Khoja which runs north in the south there. The city is surrounded by a mud wall and a ditch. To 4 or 5 km in the North-West of the current city are the ruins of an ancient city and a large building known as the temple of the fire of Ardachîr I {{er}}, and behind those, on the surface of a rock of the throat by which the river enters the plain, are two low-reliefs Sassanides. The river leaves the plain by another narrow throat at the southern end. It is there that, according to the Iranian history, Alexandre Large the, in the incapacity to seize the city, built a stopping across the throat, creating a lake in the plain submerging the city and the villages neighborhood. The lake remained until the beginning of the 3rd century, when Ardachîr, the first monarch sassanide, destroyed the stopping and thus released the plain. It built a new city, called it Gur and made of it the capital of one of the five subdivisions of Fars. Firuz (or Péroz I), one of the successors of Ardachîr, re-elected the district according to its name in Firuzabad (" the town of Firuz"), but the name of the city remained Gur until `Adhud AD-Dawla Fannâ Khusraw (949-982) gave him its current name. It changed the name of the city because it frequently resided at Gur and the fact that this name also means “tomb” was the origin of not very pleasant allusions; for example, “people who go in Gur (fall) never return alive; our king goes in Gur (the city) several times per annum and he did not die yet”.

The current district counts 20 villages and product of corn and rice.

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