Shushtar in Iran
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Shushtar is a city and capital of
Shushtar County ,
Khuzestan Province ,
Iran . Shushtar is an ancient
fortress city , approximately 92 kilometres (57 mi) from
Ahvaz , the centre of the province. Much of its past agricultural productivity derives from the
irrigation system which centered on the
Band-e Kaisar , the first dam bridge in Iran. The whole water system in Shushtar consists of 13 sites called
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System which is registered as a
Unesco World Heritage .
The people of Shushtar, called Shushtaris , maintain a unique cultural heritage stretching back to ancient times, and a Persian dialect called Shushtari dialect distinct to their group. The devoutness of Shushtar’s people has led to it being nicknamed “Dar al-Mu’minin”. Local tradition attributes certain customs to ancient Roman colonists, as well as the construction of the Band-e Kaisar and the introduction of brocade manufacturing technique.
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System © Razie Amirian/cc-by-sa-4.0
The
Band-e Kaisar (“
Caesar’s dam”) is believed by some to be a
Roman built arch bridge (since Roman captured soldiers were used in its construction), and the first in the country to combine it with a
dam . When the Sassanian Shah
Shapur I defeated the
Roman emperor
Valerian , he is said to have ordered the captive Roman soldiers to build a large bridge and dam stretching over 500 metres. Lying deep in
Persian territory, the structure which exhibits typical Roman building techniques became the most eastern
Roman bridge and
Roman dam . Its dual-purpose design exerted a profound influence on Iranian civil engineering and was instrumental in developing Sassanid water management techniques. While the traditional account is disputable, it’s not implausible that Roman prisoners of war were involved in its construction.
The approximately 500 m long
overflow dam over the Karun, Iran’s most effluent river, was the core structure of the
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System , a large irrigation complex from which Shushtar derived its agricultural productivity, and which has been designated
World Heritage Site by the
UNESCO in 2009. The arched superstructure carried across the important road between
Pasargadae and the Sassanid capital
Ctesiphon . Many times repaired in the
Islamic period , the dam bridge fell out of use in the late 19th century, leading to the degeneration of the complex system of irrigation.
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