Explanation and analysis of political, social and cultural factors in Parthian urban development

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

Bahareh  Rashti ¹ (PhD student in the history of Iran before Islam, Department of History, Najaf Abad branch, Islamic Azad University, Najaf Abad, Iran)
karim  yousefjamali ² (Professor of History Department, Najaf Abad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najaf Abad, Iran (Corresponding Author))
naser  jadidi ³ (Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Isfahan, Iran)
Feizollah  Boushasb Gousheh ⁴ (Department of History, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.)

Received: 2023-02-03 Accepted : 2023-09-17 Published : 2023-11-22

Keywords: Political, Urban Planning, Social and cultural, Parthians, party style,

Abstract :

The Parthian period is one of the most important periods in the history of urban planning and architecture in Iran. They created a huge transformation in the field of urban planning and architecture. In this long period, the foundations and architecture of Iran are laid. Because during this period, many cities were built or renovated, and in the next period, this style of urban planning and architecture reached its peak and continued its evolution. From the design of this period, due to the lack of documents, it is one of the darkest historical periods in terms of archaeological studies. Unfortunately, so far, many scattered and sometimes conflicting materials have been written about the urban planning and architecture of this era. With an analytical sociological approach, it has been examined to explain and analyze the Parthian urban planning with a political, consensus and cultural approach, and in terms of its purpose, it is among the researches. It is theoretical and in terms of the nature and method of work, it is placed in the ranks of historical researches and it is organized in a descriptive and analytical method.