The Investigation of Vaset City’s Civil Circumstance until the Third Century

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This article aims to investigate the position of Vaset city and its civil elements. Through the method of descriptive analysis, this article seeks an answer to this question “why was the Vaset city established? And which elements were effective in its development?” Vaset city-established in 84 Hejri- is like the cities constructed according to the Islamic architecture and inspired from the Islamic values.
At first, the city was constructed to settle the soldiers and armies but little by little, it was turned into a developed Islamic city by accepting the civil properties. Besides the analysis of some views around the establishment of the city related to the geographical situation, Mesopotamia and its relationship with the Islamic urbanization, the other sections of this article has to do with the grounds for the formation of Vaset city, the way of construction, its salient features and civil elements such as mosque, government palace, bazaar, localities, and the way of selecting the city’s location.

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