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With 27,653 square kilometers, and with 60 kilometers sea
border, the province of Bushehr is located on the south - west of Iran and an
the Persian Gulf. Thus this
province has remarkable strategic importance for the
country and the whole region. The province is consisted of 7 districts which
are: Bushehr, Dashti, Daylam, Kangan, Genaveh and Tangestan.
The provincial capital and the administrative center of the province is the city
of Bushehr. The geographical structure of the province divides the province into
two different areas, the plain on the west and south - west and the mountainous
on the north and north - east. The plain is striated on the Persian Gulf cost,
and it includes most of cities and towns. The mountainous area is formed by two
mountain chaines, Gach Tursh and Noukand, which form two parallel striated
mountain.
BUSHEHR AND ITS HISTORY
The strategic location of city of Bushehr has been the main reason for the
establishment of the port of Bushehr by the Hamid kings, more than two
millennium ago. The Acaemenid turned Bushehr to a section of the Pars Satrap
(state).
It is obvious that the Persian Gulf and consequently the province of Bushehr
enjoys a remarkable situation with trade in addition to its remarkable situation
regarding military
affairs. For these reasons the Europeans were interested to
take control of the region and the city of Bushehr. The Portugese, invaded the
city of Bushehr in 1506 and attempted to take the place of the Egyptian and the
Vinecian traders who were dominant in the region. In 1031 AH (After Hidjret),
Shah Abbas Safavi united with the English against the Portigous, that resulted
to throwing them out of the Persian Gulf. In 1148 AH, Nader Shah Afshar started
the development of Bushehr which was just a village then. He turned Bushehr to a
big port in the region and facilitated it with modern equipments. He also
established a factory for ship building there, so at the end of the Nader era,
there were 23 to 25 ship belong to the Iranian government in the Persian Gulf.
During the Zand era, the region was a place for political
challenges between different political groups. When the Qajar dynasty replaced
the Zandists, they gain less control on the region of the Persian Gulf, so the
British influence in the region increased gradually. The Consulate General of
British governed Bushehr for 20 years. This situation had lasted till 1913, and
during the long battle between the Iranian and the British troops, the Iranians
lost in 1857 and the British influence expanded to include all the Persian Gulf
cost. But in 1913 the Iranians won the long battle.
HISTORICAL MONUMENTS
Under the rebel Iranian commander, Raies Ali Delvari, who was the commander of
the Tahgistan brave troop. Qala Holandiha (the Duch Castle), Mabad Pozeidoon
(The Sea God Temper), Gurestan Bastani (the ancient cemetry), Imamzadeh Mir
Mohammed Hanifeh, Aramgah (tomb) Haj Mohammed Ibraheem Esfahani and the Old
Church which is located in the Khark Island. Ab Anbar (water store) Qavam,
Khaneh Qadimi (old house) Qazi, Maqbareh (tomb) the English General, Gurestan (cemetry)
Shaab, Masjd (Mosque) Shaykh Saddon and Klisay Maseeh Moqaddas (the Holy Crist
Church).
Khaneh (the house of) Raies Ali Delvari which is located 45 kilometers of
Bushehr. Emarat Qadimi (the Old Building) Malik which is located 5 kilometers to
Bushehr.
Mantaqeh Bastani (the old site) of Ray Shahr which is located 8 kilometers south
to Bushehr.
Aramgah (tomb) Abdol Mohaymrn which is located close the old to Ray Shahr.
Emaret (big building) Darya Baygui, Khaneh (house) Dehdashti, Emaret Mirat
Farhangi (cultural heritage), Emaret Shahrdari (the municipality building),
Emaret Kazerooni and the quarter centers of Shabandi and Bihbahani Bushehr.
