A Proposal to Determine the Location of the Ilkhani City of Sultanabad Chamchamal (Little Baghdad) in Bisotun Kermanshah

Subject Areas : Islamic Archaeology

Abbas Motarjem ¹ , Yaqub Mohammadifar ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.

Received: 2023-08-01 Accepted : 2023-08-01 Published : 2005-08-23

Keywords: Chamchamal Plain, Tepe Gharghovand, Little Sultanabad, Little Baghdad,

Abstract :

Based on the historical resources in the age of Soltan Abusaeid, one of the Ilkhanid in Iran, a splendid city in the direction of a road towards "The Holy Shrines" in the place of Chamchamal Plain located in boundary extent between Bisotun and Sahneh was founded. This city has been named Little Sultanabad or Little Baghdad. During two seasons of archaeological surveys in the years of 2001-2003 at Chamchamal Plain, all the archaic remains in the site ere identified and surveyed in the measuring method. Among the precincts of Chamchamal Plain, a Tepe named Gharghovand lacated in 5 km in east of Bisotun and having 20 hectare extent, more than any other precinct is capable of conformity with Sultanabad city.