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BUSHEHR |
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Location and
Cilmate |
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With 27,653
square kilometers, and with 60 kilometers sea border, the
province of Bushehr is located on the south-west of Iran ,
and on the persian Gulf. Thus this province has remarkable
strategic importance for the country and the whole region.
The province is consisted of 7 districts which are: Bushehr,
Dashti, Daylam, Kangan, Genaveh and Tangistan. The
provincial capital and the administrative center of the
province is the city of Bushehr.
The population of the province in 1996 was 743,675 from
which 53% were registered as urban inhabitant, 44.8%
villagers and the remaining 0.2% were unsettled people.
The geographical structure of the province divides the
province into two different areas; the plain on the weast
and south -west and the mountainous on the north and
nort-east. The plain is straited on the persian Gulf cost,
and in includes most of cities and towns . The Gach Tursh
and Noukand, which form two paralel straited mountains.
The weather on the persian cost of the province is very warm
and humid, while the other parts of the province are very
war and dry. There are two distingushable seasons in the
province, the winter, with moderate to cold which usually
start from November and lasts to March. The summer is very
hot and long season, while the spring and the autumn seasons
are very short . The average of the temprature in the
province is 24C degree, the the absolout high was recorded
at 50C degree, while the lowest was recorded at 6C degree.
The average temparture of the coldest month of the year was
recorded at 15C degree in the city of Bushehr, and from the
middle of May till the middle of October (for 140 days), the
temprature usually raise up to 40C degree . And during 5
months of the winter, While a large part of Iran and most
northern Europe and Amereca are usually covered with plenty
of snow and is ice, the sunny beutiful cost of Bushehr is
suitable for holiday and relaxation. The moderate temprature
in the autumn and the winter, the nice sae waves, the
beutiful fishes moving across the cost and thousands of sea
birds flidghing in the blue sky provides marvilous
opportunity to spend a pleasant and unforgatable holiday
there.
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Bushehr and
its History |
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The good and
strategic location of the city of Bushehr has been the main
reason for the establishment of the port of Bushehr by the
Ilamid king, many years before the Crise.
The Acaemenid turned Bushehr to by a section of the pars
Satrap (state).
It is obvious that the Persian Gulf and consequently the
province of Bushehr enjoys a remarkable situation with trade
in addition to is remarkable situation regarding military
affairs, so it is magnificient for the govenmentand the
people for its importance regarding wealth knowledge,
political relation and hegemony. For these reasons, the
Europeans were interested to take control on the region and
the city of Bushehr in particular. The portigous, therefore,
invaded the city of Bushehr in 1506 and attempted to take
the place of the Egiptian and the Vinecian traders who were
dominant in the region . In 1031 AH (After Hidjret), Shah
Abbas Safavi united with the English against the portigous,
that resulted to throwing them out of the persian Gulf. In
1148 AH, Nader Shah Afshar started the development of
Bushehr which was just a village then. He turned Bushehr to
a big in the region and facilitated it with modern
equipments . He also established a factory for ship building
there , so at the end of the Nader era. there were 23 to 25
ship belong to the Iranian government in the persian Gulf.
During the Zand era , the region was a place for political
chalenges between diffirent political groups. When the Qajar
dynasty replaced the Zandists, they gaind less control on
the region of the persian Gulf, so the British influence in
the region increased gradually. The Councolate General of
Britain governed Bushehr for 20 years . This situation had
lasted till 1913, and during the long battle between the
Iranians and the British troops, the Iranian lost in 1857
and the British influence expanded to include all the
persian Gulf cost. But in 1913 the Iranians won the long
battel the reble Iranian commander, Raies Ali Delvari, who
was the commander of the Tangistan brave troop.It should be
entioned here that the province of Bushehr is consisted of
different areas, each with different background history as
well as different natural geography.
This increases the differentiations of the culture and
increases its tourism attraction .
Following are explanation about the main natural and tourism
characteristics of the districts and the towns of the
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