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Anšan or ''Anzan'' ( Persian انشان ''Anšan'', modern '''Tepe Malyan''', '''Tal-e Malyan''' ), a site on the Iranian Plateau , 36 km northwest of modern Shiraz in the Zagros Mountains of the Fars Province , southwestern Iran , was the original capital of Elam in the 3rd Millennium BC . After the Elamite capital moved to Susa , Elamite kings still bore the title "King of Anšan and Susa". Anšan fell under Achaemenid rule in the 7th Century BC , captured by Teispes (675–640) who called himself "King of the City of Anšan". For another century, Anšan was a minor kingdom in the declining Elamite Empire, until the Achaemenids in the 6th Century BC from Anšan embarked on a period of conquest , which became nucleus of the Persian Empire . Not to be confused is modern Anzan (), some 50 km east of modern Ahar , East Azarbaijan , north-western Iran . |
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