Nahavand

It had an estimated population of 77,206 in 2005.
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The city was founded by Seleucus I Nicator , in Media along with the two other Hellenistic cities of Apamea and Heraclea . ( Strabo xi. p. 524 ; Stephanus Of Byzantium "Laodikeia") Pliny (vi. 29) describes it as being in the extreme limits of Media, and (re-)founded by Antiochus I .

The city was a center of Chosroes I 's empire. After military reverses (ca. 540 ) following his sack of Syrian Antiochia in 538 , he was forced to rename his capital "Antiochia".

It is the site of the Battle Of Nahavand in 642 that completed the Islamic Conquest Of Iran .

Natives of Nahavand include Benjamin Nahawandi , who was a key figure in the development of Karaite Judaism in the Early Middle Ages , and 8th-century Astronomer Ahmad Nahavandi , who worked at the Academy Of Gundishapur . People of Nahavand are mainly Kurdish . {Link without Title}

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