The city of Kashan in Iran was struck by a major earthquake just before dawn on 15 December 1778. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 6.2 Ms....

Aq Qoyunlu. Kashan was also a leisure vacation spot for Safavid kings.[citation needed] The earthquake of 1778 leveled the city of Kashan and all the...

chancellor of Nasser-al-Din Shah, Iran's King in 1852. The earthquake of 1778 levelled the city of Kashan and all the edifices of Shah Abbas Safavi, leaving 8...

admiration of and devotion to one another. Azar was at Kashan when the 1778 Kashan earthquake struck, in which he lost his brother and his house. Thus...

historical mosque in Kashan, Iran. It is located in the southern side of the Sang-e Ghadimi square and beside the Bazaar of Kashan. It is one of the oldest...

Kashan, Iran. It was constructed in the 16th century, during the Safavid era; however, the bathhouse was damaged in 1778 as a result of an earthquake...

in Kashan, Iran, now in use as a hotel. Its primary architecture dates back to the Safavid dynasty. Manouchehri House was partly ruined by the 1778 earthquake...

Iranian Earthquake Engineering Association (IEEA) "Preliminary Earthquake Reconnaissance Report on the June 22, 2002 Changureh (Avaj), Iran Earthquake". International...

severely, but in the era of Nader Shah, it was partly repaired. The earthquake of 1778 in Kashan destroyed the towers and ramparts of Jalali castle even more...

number of people, primarily in the central region of Isfahan, Qom, and Kashan, remained in Iran. These people included Moshtaq, Azar Bigdeli, Hatef Esfahani...