The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Mashhad, Iran.

Prior to 20th century

20th century

  • 1912 - 29 March: Bombing of city by Russians.[12]
  • 1918
    • Mashhad municipality (administrative entity) formed.[13]
    • Mirza Abdol-Raheem Khan Zand Kashef ol-Molk (میرزا عبدالرحیم خان زند کاشف الملک) becomes the city's first mayor.[13]
  • 1920 - Population: 70,000-80,000 (approximate estimate).[14]
  • 1925 / 1304 SH - 31 March: Solar Hijri calendar legally adopted in Iran.
  • 1949 - Razavi University established.
  • 1959 - Nader Shah Mausoleum erected.[15]
  • 1963 - Population: 312,186 (estimate).[16]
  • 1964 - Astan Quds Razavi Central Museum inaugurated.
  • 1966 - Mashhad railway station opens.
  • 1968 - سینما هویزه (cinema) established.
  • 1970 - سینما قدس (مشهد) (cinema) established.
  • 1971 - سینما آفریقا (مشهد) (cinema) established.
  • 1980 - باغ‌وحش وکیل‌آباد (zoo) established.
  • 1982 - Population: 1,120,000 (estimate).[17]
  • 1983 - Samen Stadium opens.
  • 1995 - Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi new building opens.
  • 1996 - Population: 1,887,405.[18]

21st century

See also

References

  1. Diodorus (17.77.5)
  2. Curtius (6.6.4-5)
  3. Justin (12.3.8 )
  4. Arrian (4.9.9)
  5. muhammad-bagher al-majlisi, bahaar-ol-anvaar
  6. feiz al-kashaani, al-vaafi
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Bosworth 2007.
  8. 1 2 Mawlawī 2011.
  9. 1 2 3 Britannica 1910.
  10. 1 2 3 Massumeh Farhad. "Mashhad". Oxford Art Online. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help) Retrieved 9 February 2017
  11. John H. Lorentz (2010). A to Z of Iran. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7638-5.
  12. 1 2 3 Streck 1934.
  13. 1 2 3 "Mashhad Municipality Portal". Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  14. "Persia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 via HathiTrust. Meshed
  15. "City: Mashhad, Iran". ArchNet. MIT Libraries. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  16. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966. pp. 140–161.
  17. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  18. "Countries of the World: Iran". Statesman's Yearbook 2003. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. ISBN 978-0-333-98096-5.
  19. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2015. United Nations Statistics Division. 2016.

This article incorporates information from the Persian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

in other languages

  • Muhammad Hasan Khan Sani al-Dawla, Matla' al-shams (in Persian), Tehran, OCLC 45141226 1883-1885
  • M. P. Pagnini Alberti (1971), Strutture commerciali di una città di pelligrinaggio: Mashhad (Iran nord-orientale) (in Italian), Università degli Studi di Trieste, Istituto de Geografia, OCLC 492722329
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