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1. INTRODUCTION TO SISTAN
AND BALUCHESTAN
By Fotros Tourism

2. SISTAN AND BALUCHESTAN
• Area: 187500 square km (more than 11% of
Iran)
• Weather: Sistan and Baluchestan is one of the
warmest region in Iran with an average daily
high temperature of 30 degrees centigrade.
• Population: 2,775 million
• Religion: The Sistani people of "Sistan and
Baluchestan province" are Shia Muslims, and
the people of Baluchestan area are Sunni
Muslims.

4. DAHAN-E GHOLAMAN
This city which is buried under a huge pile of shifting
sands was first discovered in 1960 and excavated
between 1962 and 1965. Dahan-e Gholaman consists of
large public buildings, temple, residential areas, streets,
streams, and military and industrial areas. The city is the
only ancient place related to Achaemenid era that
indicates Iran's Sovereignty on eastern areas well.
Dahan-e Gholaman City is important for different
reasons. For one thing, it is the only mud city from
Achaemenid period in which we can clearly see ordinary
people's life and their houses beside large public or state
buildings and monuments. In addition, this Achaemenid
city has not advanced without planning, but it has been
constructed by careful planning and engineering.
Based on archeologists, one of the main factors of the
abandonment of the city is that Hirmand River bed
abruptly dried up.

5. Together with
other
elements,
especially
seals,
arrowheads,
building plans,
and ceramics
from other
sites in Afghan
Sīstān (cf.
Fairservis),
they make it
possible to
pinpoint the
foundation of
Dahan-e
Ḡolāmān to
the 6th or the
beginning of
the 5th century
B.C.E.
(Scerrato,

6. SHAHR-E SUKHTEH
Meaning: The burnt city
Is an archaeological site of a sizable Bronze
Age urban settlement, associated with the
Jiroft culture. It is located in Sistan and
Baluchistan Province, on the bank of the
Helmand River, near the Zahedan-Zabol
road. It was placed on the UNESCO World
Heritage List in June 2014.
The reasons for the unexpected rise and fall
of the city are still wrapped in mystery.
Artifacts recovered from the city demonstrate
a peculiar incongruity with nearby
civilizations of the time and it has been
speculated that Shahr-e-Sukhteh might
ultimately provide concrete evidence of a
civilization east of prehistoric Persia that was
independent of ancient Mesopotamia.

7. ARCHAEOLOGY
Covering an area of 151 hectares, Shahr-e Sukhteh was one of the world's largest cities at the dawn of the
urban era. In the western part of the site is a vast graveyard, measuring 25 ha. It contains between 25,000
and 40,000 ancient graves.
The settlement appeared around 3200 BCE. The city had four stages of civilization and was burnt down three
times before being abandoned in 1800 BCE.
Most of the material discovered is dated to the period of c. 2700-2300 BCE. The discoveries indicate that the
city was a hub of trading routes that connected Mesopotamia and Iran with the Central Asian and Indian
civilizations, and as far away as China.

9. A 5,200-year-old bowl found in Iran’s Burnt
City in the 1970s features a series of five
images that researchers have only recently
identified as being sequential, much like
those in a zoetrope. Giving the bowl a spin,
one would see a goat leaping to snatch
leaves from a tree.
It was originally thought to depict the goat
eating from the Assyrian Tree of Life, but
archaeologists now assert that it predates
the Assyrian civilization by a thousand
years.

10. Zoetrope ( 2D
animation)

12. In December 2006, archaeologists discovered the world’s
earliest known artificial eyeball.

14. Backgammon, one of the
oldest classes of board
games in the world, being
played in the streets of the
oldest city in the world.
Excavations at Shahr-e
Sukhteh in Iran have shown
that the game existed there
around 3000 BC.

15. AZIZIYE
MOSQU
E
It is the oldest mosque in Zahedan
which said it was built first by a
merchant from Pakistan.

17. JAMEH MOSQUE OF ZAHEDAN

18. MAKKI
MOSQUE

19. Built in 1353 by Maulana Abd-al-Aziz Mullahzada and continued by his son Maulavi
Abdul Hamid
32000 square meters in 3 floors
The mosque will has a space for 60000 prayers after the construction finishes
4 minarets with the height of 92 meters
2 domes with the height of 46 meters for the central one
It is the largest Sunni mosque in Iran
The exterior have similarities with Turkish mosques like Hagia Sophia and The Blue
Mosque in Istanbul and the interior with Al Masjid an Nabawi in Medina
Zahedan’s people believe that the expenses for building a mosque should be payed by
the prayers themselves, so until now they haven’t gotten any money from the
government or other related organizations.

26. ABOUIE
HOUSE
Built about 86 years ago in Zahedan by one of the best
Yazdi architects.
Because of the weather similarities in Yazd and Zahedan,
the house like Yazd houses was built with windcatchers
and pools.
Right now it is a workshop for Zahedan’s handicrafts.

27. ABOUIE
HOUSE
Built about 86 years ago in Zahedan by one of the best Yazdi architects.
Because of the weather similarities in Yazd and Zahedan, the house like Yazd houses was built with windcatchers and
pools.

29. TAFTAN
MOUNTAIN

30. NASERI
CASTLE
As one of the important castles of the south of Sistan and
Baluchistan, Naseri Castle (Ghaleh Naseri) attracts a large
number of tourists and travelers in different occasions,
especially on New Year holidays. This castle is considered as
one of the largest and most important mud castles in Sistan
and Baluchistan.
Considering the documents left, Naser-ol-Dowleh
Farmanfarma, who was the ruler of Kerman and Baluchistan
in 1842 AD, proposed that Naser al-Din Shah Qajar build this
large fortress in Fahraj (older name of Iranshahr). read more
on itto.org The castle was built by Master Hossein
Memarbashi Kermani at the instigation of Naser al-Din Shah
in 1885 AD.

31. The castle took 7 years to
be built. Since then, it has
been called Naseri Castle,
and the headquarters of
Baluchistan was
transferred to this castle
from Bampur Castle, which
was a great old castle.

33. Covering an area of 7500
square meters, this
historical monument
consists of different
sections including four
separate yards, more than
150 rooms, springhouse,
warehouse, stable,
bathroom, barrack, and the
governor's seat.

34. BAMPOUR
CASTLE
Bampour Castle
is one of the
most important
military castles in
Asia, located 24
km west of
Iranshahr, in
Bampur district
and one km
north of Bampur
city, on a high
artificial hill with
an altitude of
80-meter. The
best time to visit
is the fall and
winter seasons.

35. This castle, the most famous castle in Balochistan, has long been the center of the Kerman and
Balochistan government. According to archaeologists, its dating back to the Sassanid and Parthian
periods. Although the people of Balochistan believe that the castle was built by Nadir Shah Afshar, in
addition to Nader allowed the construction of a fortress in the Bampur region to Nasir Khan Brahui, but
the castle of Bampur structure is much older. In 1960, British paleontologist Mrs. Beatrice explored a
part of the downhill of the mount below the Bampour Castle, and found monuments from the early days
of history.

36. The castle is made up
of two sections, which
are not the same in
terms of height. The
courtyard is located at
the entrance to the
eastern wall of the
castle and surrounded
by several towers,
where the materials
used are brick and mud.
Bampur Castle which was for a long
time, especially during the Qajar
era, the center of governance of
Baluchestan, is rectangular in shape
and has been built in the north-south
axis.
The castle consists of three main
parts of the southern yard, the
middle court and the ruler residence
section.

37. The southern yard (the barracks) is the most expanded part of
the castle and the entrance gate of the castle opens to this part:
the place for the stationing of the soldiers.
The yard of the residence
of the ruler which has been
the highest part of the
castle and constitutes the
northern half of it, consists
of several spaces, the most
notable of which is a
circular tower with an
approximate height of 5
meters and a diameter of
about 12 meters which
used to be the place for
patrolling and the stockpile

38. SE KOHE
CASTLE

39. MACHI
CASTLE

40. ROSTAM
CASTLE

41. SEB
CASTLE

42. MOUNT
KHAJEH

43. VILLAGES
IN
THE
PROVINCE