Qal’eh-i Imam
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 29, 2025 02:56 PM
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History
Qal’eh-i Imam (“Imam Fortress”), also call Qal’eh-i Marivan (“Marivan Fortress”), is one of the most important castles and fortresses in the Kurdistan Province, Marivan District, Iran. This now-ruined military fortification played a key role during the Safavid Period (1502–1737) and was an administrative venter of Ardalanians and Babanians rulers in Kurdistan. The discovery of a stele fragment of the Assyrian king Sargon II (r. 721–705 BC) in the drystone wall enclosing one of the buildings of the village Barqaleh might attest to a settlement there in the eighth century BC.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/858969850
35.4896686, 46.17783985
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of Qal’eh-i Marivan (AD 1300 - AD 1923) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Less than certain: CIGS location of Qal‘ah Imam (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Imam Fortress (English, modern)
- Marivan Fortress (English, modern)
- Qal’eh-i Imam (Kurdish, modern)
- Qal’eh-i Marivan (Kurdish, modern)
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Pleiades
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Qal’eh-i Imam: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/858969850> [accessed: 24 May 2025]
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