Qal’eh-i Imam2023-06-20T12:18:52Zjnovotnytag:atlantides.org,2020:pleiades/f9bb6802ee7046c7ad164f931566fe9cQal’eh-i Imamtag:atlantides.org,2020:pleiades/f9bb6802ee7046c7ad164f931566fe9c2023-06-20T12:18:52ZQal’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.35.491337 46.175880