Tourist Attraction

Mangasht Castle

in Dehdasht city | Kohgiluyeh va Boyer-Ahmad province
Tourist Attraction

Mangasht Castle

Related to Dehdasht city (Kohgiluyeh va Boyer-Ahmad Province)
This castle is one of the most important castles of Atabakan era of Lurestan. After segregation of Kohkiluyeh states from the Fars province and annexation of the former to Lurestan Atabakan Afrasiyab, (688-695) due to encountered pressures, was compelled to take shelter in this castle. But after the cancellation of this treaty by Arqoun Khan Mongol (680-690 AH.), he took hold of the Mangasht Castle. This castle is within 2 km. from the Bahmaei Valley, on the common borders of the Janaki and Bahmaie tribes.
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Dehdasht City in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province is limited in the north by Baq-e-Malek, Eazeh (Khuzestan province) and Lordegan (Chahar Mahal Va Bakhtiyari province) and in the south by Gachsaran, in the west are the cities of Behbahan and Ramhormoz (Khuzestan province) ...
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