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    Soltaniyeh (Persian: سلطانيه) is a city in the Central District of Soltaniyeh County, Zanjan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and...
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  • A dome is a self-supporting structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Every dome in the world which was the...
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    monument to survive from this period is the Soltaniyeh Mausoleum built for Sultan Uljaytu (r. 1304–1317), a massive dome supported on a multi-level octagonal...
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    lantern on the top. Older examples of double-shelled domes include the 50m tall Dome of Soltaniyeh and the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi. Brunelleschi...
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    continued into the Timurid period. Dome of the Mausoleum of Öljaitü in Soltaniyeh, Iran Dome of Jameh Mosque of Varamin, Iran Dome of the Jameh Mosque of Yazd...
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    year. His tomb in Soltaniyeh, 300 km west of Tehran, remains the best known monument of Ilkhanid Persia. According to Ruy González de Clavijo, his body...
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  • Barn in the Vale of White Horse in England is built. 1302–1312 – Dome of Soltaniyeh in Ilkhanate Persia is built. 1304 Ypres Cloth Hall is completed....
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  • rarely used in the broad sense of the definition by modern scholars due to the de facto disintegrated nature of the Mongol Empire. Kublai (18 December 1271)...
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    Islamic architecture (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    (1302–1312) in Soltaniyeh, Iran, which measures 50 m in height and 25 m in diameter, making it the 3rd largest and the tallest masonry dome ever erected...
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  • Öljaitü's Mausoleum in Soltaniyeh The Kharāghān twin towers, are mausoleums built in 1053 CE, Qazvin Province The blue turquoise conical dome of the Mausoleum...
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