Most cities of the Province
especially Hamedan, Nahavand and Toyserkan
are very ancient. Herodot,
Greek historian Called Hamedan as Ekbatan and said that
Diaeco (founder of Median dynasty) has built it.
Achamenidae called Hamedan Hegmataneh (place to
assemble) and chose it as their capital. As you read in
history of Iran, Hamedan was the first capital of the
first government in Iran. Archeological excavations in
Gyan Hill (Nahavand), site of Habakuk the Prophet and
his immigration to Tuyserkan (about 700 BC), Babakamal
historical hill in Tuyserkan, Nooshijan historical hill
near Malayer show the antiquity of these three cities.
Various cultural and historical monuments
in Hamedan cause that in the
date of April 21th , 1991 in the Nation Supreme
Council of Architecture&
Urbanism meeting,This city has
recognition as one of the six historical and
cultural cities of the country.
Borj-e Ghorban (Ghorban Tower)
This tower is one of
monument of 10th or 111h
century (A.D.), it IS
located In Zandi-ha
district In Hamedan
between Madani Bulevard
and Taleghani street,
beside Ibn-e Sinn high
school. Sheikh ol-Islam
Hassan Ibn-e Attar Hafez
Abu A'ia Hamedani and
some Seljuk commanders
were buried there.
'Askal,
his grand gl1lnd father
was Arab but he and his
ancestors were from
Hamedan. It is assumed
that he was born in
March 1037 A.D. Yaghut
Homavi wrote in the
eighth volum of "Mo'jam
ol-Odaba": Hafez
travelled to Baghdad,
Esfahan. and Khorasan in
order to learn syntax.
lexicon, narration and
koranic sciences and
Hassein Vabas, Abu Ali
Haddad Abulghasem Ibn-e
Bayan and Abu Abdullah
Gharavi were among his
teachers. For this
reasons, narration
scholars rely on him in
their narrations.
He was a devouted man, a
narrator and knew the
Koran by heart and all
his life with it and led
the people to the
rightfulness.
Then he returned to
Hamedan and lived in a
place where was called
Bab ol-Asad and now its
name is Borj-e Ghorban.
He passed away in 79
years of age in 1146
A.D. and was buried in
the cellar of the lower.
"AI-Hadi" and "Zad-ol
Mosaferin" in 50 volumes
are some of his books.
Khaghani Shervani and
Mo'afagh Ibn-e Ahmad
Maki composed some poems
about his rank. Ibn-e
Mamani Hamedani was one
of his students who
achieved martyrdom with
his son during a
fighting against Mongols
in 1146. This tower is
so called because during
the Afa'neh raid near
the end of Safavid era,
a persall whose name was
Ghorban. made this place
his trench and defended
his district. So the
mosque and masuleum were
called in this name.
In 1931 during
rebuilding of the tower
a cellar was found there
in which the foregoing
persons were buried.
This tower was
registered as an Iranian
National and Historical
monument No.3. 1078
dated 1975.5.18
