Culture
| Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex * | |
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| UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
| Country | Iran |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | ii, iii, iv |
| Reference | 1346 |
| Region ** | Asia and Australasia |
| Inscription history | |
| Inscription | 2010 |
| * Name as inscribed on World Heritage List ** Region as classified by UNESCO |
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| The Armenian Monastic Ensembles in Iran * | |
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| UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
| Country | Iran (Islamic Republic of) |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | ii, iii, vi |
| Reference | 1262 |
| Region ** | Asia-Pacific |
| Inscription history | |
| Inscription | 2008 |
| * Name as inscribed on World Heritage List ** Region as classified by UNESCO |
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The most outstanding features from a cultural point of view are the language, Azari/Azerice, and folklore of this region. According to Dehkhoda Dictionary, the language of Azerbaijan is originally "a branch of the Iranian languages known as Azari" (see Ancient Azari language).However the modern Azeri language is a Turkic language very closely related to the language of West Azerbaijan and Turkey. Apart from this, the province also boasts numerous learned scholars, gnostics, several national poets such as Mowlana Baba Mazeed, Khajeh Abdol Raheem Aj Abadi, Sheikh Hassan Bolqari, and Abdolqader Nakhjavani, to name a few, and the contemporary poet Ostad Mohammad Hossein Shahriyar. The current leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, also originally comes from this region.
Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization has registered 936 sites of historical significance in the province. Some are contemporary, and some are from the antiquity of ancient Persia. "Zahak Citadel", for example, is the name of an ancient ruin in East Azerbaijan, which according to various experts, was inhabited from the second millennium BC until the Timurid era. First excavated in the 1800s by British archeologists, Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization has been studying the structure in 6 phases.
East Azerbaijan hails from a rich compendium of Azeri traditions. Many local dances and folk songs continue to survive among the various peoples of the province. As a longstanding province of Iran, Azerbaijan is mentioned favorably on many occasions in Persian literature by Iran's greatest authors and poets.
Read more about this topic: East Azerbaijan Province
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