Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2021
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Sometime between 579 and 323 BC during the Achaemenid Persian period, the Citadel of Bam (in Persian Arg-é Bam) was built in southeastern present-day Iran, a huge fortress made of clay that is considered to be the largest adobe building.
It is located next to the city of the same name in the province of Kerman and near the border with Pakistan, and consists of a large fort that contains an inner citadel (although today the entire complex is called a citadel).
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The original Achaemenid nucleus was expanded by the Parthians and the Sassanids, who between 224 and 637 AD built new fortifications and walls. The Arabs conquered it in 645 and from the 10th century on, the name of Bam began to appear in Islamic sources, which speak of its impregnable fortress and its busy bazaars.