Isfahan (city)

Isfahan or Eşfahān (historically also rendered as Ispahan, Old Persian Aspadana, Middle Persian Spahān, Persian اصفهان), located about 340 km south of Tehran, is the capital of Isfahan Province and Iran (Persia)'s third largest city (after Tehran and Mashhad). Its population in 2000 was 2,040,000.

References

• Reza Abouei, Urban Planning of Isfahan in the Seventeenth Century, Sheffield, 2004, article available on planum.net