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   Per·sep·o·lis

   /pərˈsepələs/

   • 1. a city in ancient Persia, situated to the northeast of Shiraz. It was founded in the late 6th century bc by Darius I as the ceremonial capital of Persia under the Achaemenid dynasty. The city's impressive ruins include functional and ceremonial buildings and cuneiform inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian.

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