The Gonbad-e Qabus is a tall brick tower in northeastern Iran, near the city of Gonbad-e Kavus, built as a mausoleum for the ruler Qabus ibn Wushmgir of the Ziyarid dynasty, who was also a poet and a patron of scholars. It is more than fifty metres high, and stands on a hill and an artificial mound, so it dominates the plain. Its tapering cylindrical body is ribbed with ten flanges and topped with a conical roof, and it is built of fired brick with a few inscriptions in Kufic script. It is considered one of the great achievements of early Islamic architecture, influencing later tomb towers in Iran and Central Asia, and was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2012.
Before and after
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- from 1005 to 1797Republic of Genoa
- 1006Construction of Gonbad-e Qabus
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