{"slug": "shiraz", "label": "Shiraz", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6397066", "qid": "Q6397066", "description": "city in Fars Province, Iran", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [934, 1765], "span_label": ["934 CE", "1765 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "abbasid-caliphate", "label": "Abbasid Caliphate", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "buyid-dynasty", "label": "Buyid dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "persia", "label": "Persia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "samanid-empire", "label": "Samanid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "fars-province", "label": "Fars province", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mesopotamia", "label": "Mesopotamia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "afghanistan", "label": "Afghanistan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nader-shah", "label": "Nader Shah", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "islam", "label": "Islam", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tanzania", "label": "Tanzania", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 934, "year_label": "934 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Ali ibn Buya, a Samanid governor, takes advantage of the anarchy in Persia and conquers Fars (modern Iran). He founds the Buyid Dynasty, and makes Shiraz his capital. Ali seeks the recognition of the Abbasid caliph Ar-Radi, who confirms him later as his viceroy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341512094#Abbasid_Caliphate", "title": "934", "revid": 1341512094, "section": "Events › By place › Abbasid Caliphate"}}, {"year": 965, "year_label": "965 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 23", "text": "September 23 – Al-Mutanabbi, an Abbasid poet, returns from 5 years in Mesopotamia. He has lived at Shiraz under the protection of the Buyid emir 'Adud al-Dawla, but bandits kill him near An Numaniyah (modern Iran).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371364470#Literature", "title": "965", "revid": 1371364470, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": 980, "year_label": "980 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Kilwa Sultanate, centered at Kilwa (an island off modern Tanzania), is founded by Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi, Persian prince of Shiraz.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364109392#Africa", "title": "980", "revid": 1364109392, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1624, "year_label": "1624 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 13", "text": "September 13 – Ketevan, former queen consort of Kakheti (located around Gremi in what is now the Republic of Georgia), is tortured and killed in the Persian city of Shiraz after refusing to renounce Christianity to convert to Islam.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331350573#July–September", "title": "1624", "revid": 1331350573, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1730, "year_label": "1730 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 9", "text": "March 9 – General Nader Khan of Persia opens the first campaign of the Ottoman–Persian War (1730–1735), guiding the Persian Army from Shiraz and starting the Western Persia Campaign against the Ottoman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560881#January–March", "title": "1730", "revid": 1369560881, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1754, "year_label": "1754 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 29", "text": "November 29 – Karim Khan Zand, the King of Persia (now Iran) recaptures the city of Shiraz from Afghan warlord Azad Khan Afghan, who had taken control of much of central Iran since 1749.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360193273#October–December", "title": "1754", "revid": 1360193273, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1765, "year_label": "1765 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 21", "text": "July 21 – Having eliminated all of his rivals for leadership of Persia, Karim Khan Zand returns in triumph to his home in Shiraz and makes it his capital then begins construction of citadels, mosques, schools and other buildings.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373039097#July–December", "title": "1765", "revid": 1373039097, "section": "Events › July–December"}}]}