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Kazerun is a city in Fars province
Fars Province

Fars is one of the 30 provinces of Iran of Iran. It is in the south of the country and its center is Shiraz, Iran. It has an area of 122,400 km?....
, Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
, situated between Shiraz
Shiraz, Iran

Shiraz is the sixth most populated city in Iran and the capital of Fars Province. Shiraz is located in the southwest of Iran on the Rudkhaneye Khoshk seasonal river....
 and Bushehr
Bushehr

Bushehr , pop. 165,377 , is a city on the southwestern coast of Iran, on the Persian Gulf. It is the chief seaport of the country and the administrative centre of Bushehr province....
. It had an estimated population of 89,013 in 2005.

Its agricultural products include date palm
Date Palm

Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the Date Palm, is a Arecaceae in the genus Phoenix , extensively cultivated for its edible sweet fruit....
s, citrus
Citrus

Citrus is a common term and genus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae, originating in tropical and subtropical southeast regions of the world....
 orchards, wheat
Wheat

Wheat , is a worldwide cultivated Poaceae from the Levant region of the Middle East. Globally, after maize, wheat is the second most-produced food among the cereal just above rice....
, tobacco
Tobacco

Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide, and in the form of nicotine tartrate it is used in some medicines....
, rice
Rice

Rice is a staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in tropical Latin America, and East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, making it the second-most consumed cereal grain, after maize....
, cotton
Cotton

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa....
, and vine
Vine

A vine is any plant of genus Grape or, by extension, any similar climbing or trailing plant. The word, derived from Latin vinea, referred to the grape-bearing variety....
s.

The nearby ruins of the ancient city of Bishapur
Bishapur

Bishapur is an ancient city situated south of modern Faliyan, Iran on the ancient road between Persis and Elam. The road linked the Sassanid capitals Istakhr and Ctesiphon....
 12 mi. (19 km) N., include bas-relief depictions from the Sasanid era
Sassanid Empire

The Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty is the name of the last pre-Islamic Iranian empire. It was one of the two main powers in Western Asia for a period of more than 400 years....
 (ca.






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Kazerun is a city in Fars province
Fars Province

Fars is one of the 30 provinces of Iran of Iran. It is in the south of the country and its center is Shiraz, Iran. It has an area of 122,400 km?....
, Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
, situated between Shiraz
Shiraz, Iran

Shiraz is the sixth most populated city in Iran and the capital of Fars Province. Shiraz is located in the southwest of Iran on the Rudkhaneye Khoshk seasonal river....
 and Bushehr
Bushehr

Bushehr , pop. 165,377 , is a city on the southwestern coast of Iran, on the Persian Gulf. It is the chief seaport of the country and the administrative centre of Bushehr province....
. It had an estimated population of 89,013 in 2005.

Its agricultural products include date palm
Date Palm

Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the Date Palm, is a Arecaceae in the genus Phoenix , extensively cultivated for its edible sweet fruit....
s, citrus
Citrus

Citrus is a common term and genus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae, originating in tropical and subtropical southeast regions of the world....
 orchards, wheat
Wheat

Wheat , is a worldwide cultivated Poaceae from the Levant region of the Middle East. Globally, after maize, wheat is the second most-produced food among the cereal just above rice....
, tobacco
Tobacco

Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide, and in the form of nicotine tartrate it is used in some medicines....
, rice
Rice

Rice is a staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in tropical Latin America, and East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, making it the second-most consumed cereal grain, after maize....
, cotton
Cotton

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows in a form known as a boll around the seeds of the cotton plant a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India and Africa....
, and vine
Vine

A vine is any plant of genus Grape or, by extension, any similar climbing or trailing plant. The word, derived from Latin vinea, referred to the grape-bearing variety....
s.

The nearby ruins of the ancient city of Bishapur
Bishapur

Bishapur is an ancient city situated south of modern Faliyan, Iran on the ancient road between Persis and Elam. The road linked the Sassanid capitals Istakhr and Ctesiphon....
 12 mi. (19 km) N., include bas-relief depictions from the Sasanid era
Sassanid Empire

The Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty is the name of the last pre-Islamic Iranian empire. It was one of the two main powers in Western Asia for a period of more than 400 years....
 (ca. 224–651). A statue of Shapur I
Shapur I

Shapur I was the second Sassanid King of the Sassanid Empire. The dates of his reign are commonly given as 241 - 272, but it is likely that he also reigned as co-regent prior to his father's death in 241....
 (AD 241–272) can be found in a large cave at the site. The ruins of the Qal'eh-ye Gabri (Castle of the Gabr
Gabr

Gabr is a Persian language term originally used to denote a Zoroastrianism.Historically, gabr was a technical term synonymous with mog, "magus", denoting a follower of Zoroastrianism, and it is with this meaning that the term is attested in very early New Persian texts such as the Shahnameh....
s, or Zoroastrians) are located on a mound S.E. of Kazerun.

Nasrollah Mardani, a famous Persian poet, comes from Kazerun. It is also believed that Salman the Persian
Salman the Persian

Salman the Persian or Salman al Farisi was one of companions of the Prophet of Islam.During some of his later meetings with the other Sahaba, he was referred to as Abu Abdullah ....
, one of the followers of the prophet Mohammad, comes from this city. "Welcome to Salman the Persian" can be seen at the entrance of the city. The town is also the scene of a famous battle in the fictional novel My Uncle Napoleon
My Uncle Napoleon

My Uncle Napoleon is a coming of age novel by Iranian author Iraj Pezeshkzad published in Tehran in Persian language in 1973. The novel was adapted to a highly successful TV series in 1976 directed by Nasser Taghvai....
.

See also

Old Kazeruni dialect
Kazeruni dialect (old)

The Old Kazeruni dialect is an extinct Southwestern Iranian languages spoken in the city of Kazerun in Southern Iran. Example Sentences...