Color photos of homeland a hundred years ago

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Tehran is in the historical Media region of  in northwestern homeland. By the time of the Median Empire, part of present-day Tehran was a suburb of the prominent Median city of Rhages (Old Persian: Ragā). In the Avesta’s Videvdat (i, 15), Rhages is mentioned as the 12th sacred place created by Ohrmazd.

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