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Gonbad Soltaniyeh is in Zanjan province in IRAN, the oldest and greatest brick double-shell dome in the world. UNESCO listed Soltaniyeh as one of the World Heritage Sites in 2005.
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Soltaniyeh situated in the Zanjan Province of Iran, some 240 km to the north-west from Tehran, used to be the capital of Ilkhanid rulers of Persia in the 14th century. Its name translates as "the Imperial". In 2005, UNESCO listed Soltaniyeh as one of the World Heritage Sites. Domul de la Soltanieh, monument cunoscut şi sub numele de Mausoleul lui Oljaitu (Sultanieh, fosta capitală a dinastiei Ilkhanide întemeiată de Khulagu Khan, cel care a fost nepotul lui Ginghis Han şi fratele lui Kubilai Han), a fost construit in perioada 1302-1312 din porunca sultanului Oljaitu Mohammad Khodabandeh.Acest dom e considerat bijuteria arhitectonică a perioadei Ilkhanide şi perla capitalei acestei dinastii de origine mongolă. Monument UNESCO Zanjan
Singurele decoraţii de pe pereţii, arcadeleşicupolele de pe culoarelecirculareceînconjoară la exterior domul sunt făcute din cărămizicolorate.
Timur invaded and plundered city and no one left alive in city in 1384. Miran Shah the mad son of Timur later ordered to destroy and level what remind after his father invasion, just the Dome of Soltaniyeh left.
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