Maragheh, Iran

Iran

Maragheh, Iran holds 40 connections with 847 places across 15 topics, with history and science as the dominant threads. Its medieval observatory produced the Zij-i Ilkhani, a stellar catalogue that served as a reference point for astronomers two centuries later. The city shares many connections with India, Azerbaijan, Tabriz, and Baghdad, mapping its reach across the medieval Islamic scholarly world. The poem Haft Peykar was dedicated to its Ahmadili ruler. A Mithraic temple in a nearby village stands among the oldest surviving Mithraic sites in Iran.