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Shush county

The three major rivers of this part of the county are Dez, Karkheh and shahoor pass through and the latter rannig through the city of shush.
as the major city of the county, Shush has an area of 1800h.the municipality of the city was established in 1954.
there are many interesting and ancient manuments and sites to visit.

Shush
Shush as the most ancient city of humans civilization, was originally built eround 4000 b.c.
the major scientific excavating operation did happend in 1850 by a group of french archeaologists and was continued over the following decades .
as the results many precious and invaluable objects belonging to the elamite and achaemenian dynasties as well as post isiamis era were discovered .

Karkheh bank thickets

Karkheh is one of the most important rives of iran and has been mentioned in acamin tablets.
this river has seveal times changed its route . of its important featuers are the annual floods which with construction of karkheh dam have been controlled.
on the bank of this river consentrated vegatation is formed of trees and shrubs is formed.

Sush castel
After the French established themselves in susa (shush) and their need for a suitable long stay residance,in 1897 they started the construaction of a castel on the historcal acropolis hill.
the castel was built according to a european plan, using the hiostorical materials found in the historical areas of susa and Chugh-Zanbil .
local labour was employed in its costruction .
the castel during the last 107 years has been modified many times with additions to it .
at the present it is home to the khuzestan cultural heritage and touring organization .


The temple of Danial
Danil as one of most well known jewish prophets whose name in hebrew means : " god is my ruler " , lived and died in Shush in 700 b.c.
Sanial , who had immigrated to persia with a large group of jewish people , decided to reside permanently in shush and eventually died there too .
his temple is located along the eastern bank of the shahoors river .
on top of the building , there is a dome which is the typical kind of the dome found in area.

The Shush museum
This museum with an area of 550m2 is placed in a garden with a total area of 1435m2 and is adjacent to the shush historical area . the museum was opend in 1966 and it contains a number of interesting objects which have been excavated during this century and desades before it .


 

The Shahoors or Ardeshir palace
Along the western side of the Shahoors river , the ruins of an old palace was discovered and because of its location , the name of shahoor was given to it . this palace , which was built during the ardeshir ll ruling
years , is measured 34.6 / 37.5 meters with sixty four stone based on columns and walls made of prepared mud .
the palace is situated on the western side of the apadana , roughly three hundred fify meters away .