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Minar (Firuzabad)

Iran

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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The Minar was a staged, tower-like structure built in the center of the Sasanian circular city of Gōr (modern Firuzabad, Iran). Several theories have been proposed for its purpose. Only the core of the structure remains today.

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Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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