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=== Ardashir-Khwarrah ===
[[File:Ardashir_Babakan's_Palace_in_FiruzAbad.JPG|thumb|A view of the [[Palace of Ardashir]], the city of Gur (current [[Firuzabad County|Firuzabad]]), the entrance hall and supporting halls of the palace were covered with wheel domes. The outside walls did not have windows, but did contain prominent and dome-like columns.<ref name=":32"/>]]
Ardashir-Khwarrah is one of the five Iranian villages in the [[Sasanian Empire|Sasanian]] era until the first [[Islam]]ic centuries centered by the city of Gur ([[Arabic]]: Jur) that were constructed by Ardashir. The name means "Ardashir's magnificence". The town was probably constructed after Ardashir's victory over [[Artabanus IV of Parthia|Artabanus]] in 224. The town was constructed beside Ardashir's palace (where he lived before the rebellion) and it is said that the emperor built five [[fire temple]]s beside the town that the historian, [[Al-Masudi]] had seen.<ref name=":18">{{Cite book|title="Ardašīr-Ḵorra". In Encyclopædia Iranica.|last=Bosworth, C. E.}}</ref> The city of Gur was run by a representative from the [[shah]].<ref name=":23">{{Cite book|title=Ardashirkhureh|last=Ardajini}}</ref> Gur was later renamed [[Firuzabad County|Firuzabad]] by the 10th-century [[Buyid dynasty|Buyid]] king [['Adud al-Dawla]].<ref name=":18" /><ref name=":23" /> Ardashir-Khwarrah can be mentioned as a military base and one of the active [[Mint (facility)|mints]] of the Sasanian era. Of the works of Ardashir-Khwarrah, the building of Tarbal (Menar) Kiakhoreh beside the building of Chaharotag (The Gur fire temple), Ardashir's palace, the [[Epigraphy|inscription]] of [[Mihr Narseh]] (the [[vizier]] of three Sasanian kings; [[Yazdegerd I]], [[Bahram V]] and [[Yazdegerd II]]) and his four fire temples can be mentioned.<ref name=":23" />

The structure of the town is inspired by the architectural method of Darabgard and contains circular walls that surround an area with a diameter of about two kilometers and a double muddy wall and a trench with a [[Parthian Empire|Parthian]] style and two axes divide the perpendicular intersection of the city to four sectors with four main gates of Mehr, Bahram, Hormoz and Ardashir that each is divided to five smaller sections that are connected to each other by ring-like streets.<ref name=":23" />