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  2. Poolaki - Wikipedia

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    Poolaki (Persian: پولکی), commonly called Pooleki, is a type of candy made mainly in Isfahan, Iran. Its shape is in the form of a thin disc, similar to a thin coin, which starts dissolving as it enters the mouth. It is made of sugar, water, white vinegar and some natural taste of saffron, dried lime or cocoa powder.

  3. Gaz (candy) - Wikipedia

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    Gaz dates backs to 450 years ago in Isfahan, when the sap found on the Tamarisk tree was combined with flour, bread, pistachios, almonds and chocolate in traditional and industrial workshops. [citation needed] The height of this mountain tree reaches a height of two meters and it usually grows in good weather in the Khansar. The product of this ...

  4. Isfahan - Wikipedia

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    Isfahan is located at the intersection of the two principal routes that traverse Iran, north–south and east–west. Isfahan flourished between the 9th and 18th centuries. Under the Safavid Empire, Isfahan became the capital of Iran, for the second time in its history, under Abbas the Great. The city retains much of its history.

  5. Naqsh-e Jahan Square - Wikipedia

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    Ali Qapu (IPA: ɑliː qɑpuː) is a pavilion that marks the entrance to the vast royal residential quarter of Safavid Isfahan which stretched from the Maidan Naqsh-e Jahan to the Chahar Bagh Boulevard. The name is made of two elements: "Ali", Arabic for exalted, and "Qapu" Turkic for portal or royal threshold. The compound stands for "Exalted ...

  6. Culture in Isfahan - Wikipedia

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    Isfahan is the home of several UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites. The Naqsh-e Jahan Square (Shah Square) was built in the early 16th century when Isfahan was the capital of the Safavid empire, and it was one of the first sites in Iran to be inscribed on the World Heritage list, in 1979, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and the Jameh Mosque of Isfahan was ...

  7. Arts of Iran - Wikipedia

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    The dish is then ready to be painted. The Isfahanian artists, having been inspired by their traditional plans as arabesque, khataii (flowers and birds) and using fireproof paints and special brushes, have made painting of Isfahan monuments such as step, the enameled material is put into the furnace again and heated at five hundred degrees.

  8. Melania Trump's 'soft power' on display in the White House ...

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    Among the other points made in the Hello! piece is Melania Trump's special relationship with the couple's son, Barron Trump, who is now 18. The president's youngest child is a college student.

  9. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Naghshe Jahan Square

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    n the present site of Meydan-e-Emam before Isfahan became the Safavid capital, there used to be another square called naqsh-e-Jahan (Design of the world), much smaller than the square today. It was Shah Abbas the Great who made Isfahan his capital and then decreed that the square should be extended to its present size, and lovely buildings set ...