The site

Bishapur is an ancient city in Iran and one of the capitals of the Sasanian Empire, founded in the third century CE by order of Shapur I to mark a Sasanian victory over Rome. Sprawling across about 200 hectares, it is one of the few Iranian cities laid out on Greek urban planning principles. A World Heritage Site, it once rivaled great eastern Roman cities like Antioch before declining after the Muslim conquest.

Field notes

civilizations

Persian (Achaemenid)

types

City

built

226 CE

occupied

226 CE — 700 CE

country

Iran