Timcheh-e Amin o Dowleh, KashanBazaar (19th century). Persian architects used these structures to naturally decrease temperatures, regulate sunlight, and ventilate the interior spaces during the daytime.Amin-o-Dowleh, Persian royal envoy to the court ofNapoleon III.
Earliest evidence of human presence around Kashan date back toPaleolithic period that have been found atNeyasar, Kaftar Khoun and Sefid-Ab. TheTepe Sialk, linked to theZayandeh River Culture, dates back to around the6th millennium BC. Middle Paleolithic stone tools were discovered at travertine spring of Niasar and the travertine of Kaftar Khoun.[8]Upper Paleolithic groups were living aroundSefid-Ab spring at SW of Kashan.[9]
It is uncertain as to when what is now Kashan established.[10][11][12]By some accounts, although not all, Kashan was the origin of thethree wise men who followed the star that guided them to Bethlehem to witness thenativity of Jesus, as recounted in theBible.[13] For example, medieval traveler FriarOdoric of Pordenone related this story in 1330 after having visited there.[14]
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 248,789 in 67,464 households.[20] The following census in 2011 counted 275,325 people in 80,015 households.[21] The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 304,487 people in 91,935 households.[2]
The city of Kashan is located in the north of Isfahan province, north of theKarkas Mountains and west ofDasht-e Kavir desert, where it is poor in terms of vegetation and where bushes and shrubs are more or less found.
Dare mountain is next to Dare village and 14 kilometers southwest of Kashan with a height of 2,985 meters overlooking the city of Kashan, andmount Gargash is the second highest peak of the Karkas mountain range (the first is mount Karakas in Natanz), 33 kilometers southwest of Kashan and 12 kilometers southwest of Qamsar and 7 kilometers northeast of Kamu with a height of 3,600 meters. Ardahal peak is located 35 kilometers west of Kashan with a height of 3505 meters after Gargash, is the highest point of Kashan heights (continuation of the central mountain range) in the vicinity of Niaser and the villages Nashlej and Mashhad.[22][23]
Kashan has the least light andair pollution. For this reason, it was chosen by international experts as the most appropriate and best place to establish the National Observatory of Iran, and the home of one of the largest large telescopes in the Middle East with the latest technology.
On August 9, 2007, Iran placed the Historical Axis ofFin,Sialk, Kashan on its Tentative List for possible future nomination as aUNESCOWorld Heritage Site. The exact definition of what locations within Kashan proper might be nominated was not made clear. In 2012 Iran successfully nominated theFin Garden separately for inscription by UNESCO as a part of its Persian Gardens World Heritage Site. Despite this the "Historical-Cultural Axis of Fin, Sialk, Kashan" remains in full on Iran's Tentative List. TheBoroujerdiha house is one of the historical places from theQajar period.
Sultan Amir Ahmad Bathhouse.University of Kashan Entrance
There are more than 10,000 students currently studying in various fields (e.g.:Applied sciences, Engineering, Art, Law, Medical sciences, Nano technology, literature, Carpet and Handicrafts, etc.) at universities of Kashan.Colleges and universities in Kashan include:
Kashan is connected via freeways toIsfahan andNatanz to the South, andQom, which is an hour drive away to the north. Kashan railway station is along the main north–south railways of Iran.Kashan Airport reopened on 2 June 2016 after twenty years hiatus with an ATA Airlines flight from Mashhad International Airport.
^Kashan can be found atGEOnet Names Server, atthis link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3069961" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
^Henry Yule,Cathay and the Way Thither, Volume II, edited by Henri Cordier for the Hakluyt Society, 1913, p. 106, FN 4.
^Biglari, F. (2004) The Preliminary Survey of Paleolithic Sites in the Kashan region., In S.M. Shahmirzadi (ed.), The Silversmiths of Sialk (Sialk Reconsideration Project), Report No. 2: 151-168. Archaeological Research Center. Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization,Tehran. (In Persian)
^Shidrang, S 2009 A Typo-technological Study of an Upper Paleolithic Collection from Sefid-Ab, Central Iran, In: M. Otte, F. Biglari, and J. Jaubert (eds), Iran Palaeolithic. pp. 47–56, Proceedings of the XV World Congress UISPP, Lisbonne, Vol. 28, BAR International Series 1968
^Elgood, Cyril.A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate: From the Earliest Times Until the Year A.D. 1932. Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine. Cambridge University Press, 2010.ISBN1108015883 p. 34
^Henry Yule,Cathay and the Way Thither, Volume II, edited by Henri Cordier for the Hakluyt Society, 1913, p. 106.
^Roy P. Mottahedeh (19 January 2023).In the Shadow of the Prophet Essays in Islamic History(ebook). Oneworld Publications.ISBN9780861545612. Retrieved2 December 2023.Ulugh Beg, one of most mathematically gifted rulers of the medieval era. Jamshid's enormous talent had supposedly been immediately recognized by another astronomer, on discovering him in an astrolabe shop in Kashan.98
^David Durand-Guédy; Jürgen Paul; Roy Mottahedeh (2020).Cities of Medieval Iran. Brill. p. 420.ISBN9789004434332. Retrieved2 December 2023.Kashan, showing that the latter also understood mathematics and astronomy. Applying the characteristic mix of ... Qara-Qoyunlu and subsequently the Aq-Qoyunlu.
^"کاشان نیازمند مدیران در تراز دارالمومنین" [Kashan needs managers in line with Dar al-Mo'menin].Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) (in Persian). IRNA. 15 December 2021. Retrieved22 August 2025.
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