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Bam, Iran, the Glossary

Bam (بم) is a city in the Central District of Bam County, Kerman province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.^[1]

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Arg-e Bam

The Arg-e Bam (ارگ بم), located in the city of Bam, Kerman Province of southeastern Iran, is the largest adobe building in the world. Bam, Iran and Arg-e Bam are Architecture in Iran.

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Bakhsh

A bakhsh (بخش, also romanized as baxš) is a third-level administrative division of Iran.

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Bam County

Bam County (شهرستان بم) is in Kerman province, Iran.

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Central District (Bam County)

The Central District of Bam County (بخش مرکزی شهرستان بم) is in Kerman province, Iran. Bam, Iran and Central District (Bam County) are Populated places in Bam County.

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Citrus

Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae.

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Counties of Iran

Iran's counties (شهرستان, romanized as šahrestân) are administrative divisions of larger provinces (ostan).

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Date palm

Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering-plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates.

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Desert climate

The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification BWh and BWk) is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation.

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Dinar

The dinar is the name of the principal currency unit in several countries near the Mediterranean Sea, with a more widespread historical use.

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Dust storm

A dust storm, also called a sandstorm, is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).

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History

History (derived) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.

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Muḥammad Abū’l-Qāsim Ibn Ḥawqal (محمد أبو القاسمبن حوقل), also known as Abū al-Qāsim b. ʻAlī Ibn Ḥawqal al-Naṣībī, born in Nisibis, Upper Mesopotamia; was a 10th-century Arab Muslim writer, geographer, and chronicler who travelled from AD 943 to 969.

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International Atomic Energy Agency

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an intergovernmental organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Iran Standard Time

Iran Standard Time (IRST) or Iran Time (IT) is the time zone used in Iran.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kerman

Kerman (كرمان) is a city in the Central District of Kerman County, Kerman province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. Bam, Iran and Kerman are Cities in Kerman province.

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Kerman province

Kerman Province (استان کرمان) is the largest of the 31 provinces of Iran.

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Khorasan province

Khorasan (استان خراسان; also transcribed as Khurasan, Xorasan and Khorassan), also called Traxiane during Hellenistic and Parthian times, was a province in northeastern Iran until September 2004, when it was divided into three new provinces: North Khorasan, South Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan.

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Mahmud Hotak

Shāh Mahmūd Hotak, (Pashto/Dari: شاه محمود هوتک), or Shāh Mahmūd Ghiljī (شاه محمود غلجي), also known by his epithet, The Conqueror (lived 1697 – April 22, 1725), was the ruler of the Hotak dynasty who overthrew Safavid dynasty to become the king of Persia from 1722 until his death in 1725.

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Mehr News Agency

The Mehr News Agency (MNA; Xabâr-gozâri Mehr) is a semi-official news agency of the government of Iran.

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Moment magnitude scale

The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted explicitly with M or or Mwg, and generally implied with use of a single M for magnitude) is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude ("size" or strength) based on its seismic moment.

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Nuclear power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity.

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OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, open geographic database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration.

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Parthian Empire

The Parthian Empire, also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power centered in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD.

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Pashtuns

Pashtuns (translit), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are a nomadic, pastoral, Eastern Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. They historically were also referred to as Afghans until the 1970s after the term's meaning had become a demonym for members of all ethnic groups in Afghanistan.

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Provinces of Iran

Iran is subdivided into thirty-one provinces (استان ostân), each governed from a local centre, usually the largest local city, which is called the capital (Persian: مرکز, markaz) of that province.

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Qanat

A qanat or kārīz is a system for transporting water from an aquifer or water well to the surface, through an underground aqueduct; the system originated approximately 3,000 years ago in Iran. Bam, Iran and qanat are world Heritage Sites in Iran.

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Safavid Iran

Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire,, officially known as the Guarded Domains of Iran, was one of the largest and long-standing Iranian empires after the 7th-century Muslim conquest of Persia, which was ruled from 1501 to 1736 by the Safavid dynasty.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bam,_Iran

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Populated places destroyed by earthquakes

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