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handicrafts workshops, the official added.The projects have been carried out in close collaboration with the private sector, he
including the Jameh Mosque of Tabriz and Arg of Tabriz, and UNESCO-registered Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex to name a few
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 retained its administrative status under the Safavid dynasty until 1548,
when Shah Tahmasp I relocated his capital westward to Qazvin
During the next two centuries, Tabriz changed hands several times between Persia and the Ottoman Empire
During World War I, the city was temporarily occupied by Turkish and then Soviet troops.Tabriz was declared a world craft city of carpet
weaving by the World Craft in 2016
