{"slug": "persepolis", "label": "Persepolis", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129072", "qid": "Q129072", "description": "ancient city in Marvdasht County, Iranian national heritage site and World heritage site", "entries": 11, "years": 10, "span": [-517, 1971], "span_label": ["518 BCE", "1971 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 4}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}], "related": [{"slug": "darius-i", "label": "Darius I", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "parthia", "label": "Parthia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ardashir-i", "label": "Ardashir I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "fars-province", "label": "Fars province", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "persia", "label": "Persia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "susa", "label": "Susa", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -517, "year_label": "518 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Construction begins on the Apadana (audience hall) of Darius and Xerxes, ceremonial complex, at Persepolis, Persia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342658453#Architecture", "title": "518 BC", "revid": 1342658453, "section": "Events › By topic › Architecture"}}, {"year": -517, "year_label": "518 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Darius I begins constructing Persepolis, a new capital for the Persian Empire (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342658453#Architecture", "title": "518 BC", "revid": 1342658453, "section": "Events › By topic › Architecture"}}, {"year": -514, "year_label": "515 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Construction of Persepolis begins.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129116#Art_and_architecture", "title": "515 BC", "revid": 1350129116, "section": "Events › By topic › Art and architecture"}}, {"year": -490, "year_label": "491 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The construction of a relief begins in the Apadana, a ceremonial complex at Persepolis. The relief pictures Darius I and Xerxes I receiving tribute and is now displayed in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364322520#Art", "title": "491 BC", "revid": 1364322520, "section": "Events › By topic › Art"}}, {"year": -485, "year_label": "486 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The construction of a relief in the Apadana, a ceremonial complex at Persepolis, is finished. It shows Darius and Xerxes receiving tribute.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598378#Art", "title": "486 BC", "revid": 1360598378, "section": "Events › By topic › Art"}}, {"year": -479, "year_label": "480 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Imperial treasury at the Persepolis Palace is completed after a building time of thirty years.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342344662#Persian_empire", "title": "480 BC", "revid": 1342344662, "section": "Events › By place › Persian empire"}}, {"year": -459, "year_label": "460 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The construction of the ceremonial complex of Apadana (the audience hall of Darius I and Xerxes I) in Persepolis is completed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173290#Persian_Empire", "title": "460 BC", "revid": 1354173290, "section": "Events › By place › Persian Empire"}}, {"year": -329, "year_label": "330 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 30", "text": "January 30 – After gaining the Pass of the Persian Gates, Alexander enters Persepolis. There he ceremonially burns down the palace of Xerxes I, as a symbol that the Panhellenic war of revenge is at an end.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326554346#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "330 BC", "revid": 1326554346, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -324, "year_label": "325 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "By the end of the year, Alexander's army reaches Persepolis, while his navy, under Nearchus, reaches Susa at around the same time.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372590647#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "325 BC", "revid": 1372590647, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": 220, "year_label": "220 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Ardashir I, founder of the Sassanid dynasty, gains support from some Parthian sub-kings and revolts against the rule of Vologases VI. Ardashir, a grandson of Sasan, had ruled Persis since 208 and six years earlier gained control of the region surrounding Persepolis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371227417#Parthian_Empire", "title": "220", "revid": 1371227417, "section": "Events › By place › Parthian Empire"}}, {"year": 1971, "year_label": "1971 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14 – The largest state banquet in history is held at the ancient city of Persepolis in Iran, marking the symbolic Celebration of the 2,500th Anniversary of the Founding of the Persian Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369905382#October", "title": "1971", "revid": 1369905382, "section": "Events › October"}}]}