INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN-- An overall of 100 tourism-related projects are currently underway throughout the East Azarbaijan province, northwest Iran, the
provincial tourist chief has said.An investment worth of 260 trillion rials ($650 million) has actually been channeled into the projects,
Ahmad Hamzehzadeh explained on Thursday.Among the projects, 36 hotels are being constructed, including 6,000 beds to the hospitality sector
in the province once they are completed, the main added.Soaked in history and culture for centuries, Tabriz, the capital of East Azarbaijan,
embraces several historical and spiritual sites, including the Jameh Mosque of Tabriz and Arg of Tabriz, and UNESCO-registered Tabriz
Historic Bazaar Complex among others
The city ended up being the capital of the Mongol Il-Khan Mahmud Gazan (1295-- 1304) and his successor
Timur (Tamerlane), a Turkic conqueror, took it in 1392
Some decades later, the Kara Koyunlu Turkmen made it their capital
It was when the famous Blue Mosque was built in Tabriz.The city kept its administrative status under the Safavid dynasty till 1548, when
Shah Tahmasp I relocated his capital westward to Qazvin
Throughout the next 2 centuries, Tabriz altered hands a number of times in between Persia and the Ottoman Empire
Throughout World War I, the city was briefly occupied by Turkish and then Soviet troops.Tabriz was stated a world craft city of carpet
weaving by the World Craft in 2016
It also bore the title of the Islamic Tourism Capital in 2018
