khoy, one of the major cities in the west azarbaijan province is known for its nature, military, border positions, proximity to the silk road, including many different cultures and overall is one of the important settlements in the area. this essay investigates khoy city’s expansion, from early islam until late qajar (fourth - fourteenth century) according to historical documents. this article ...

In this paper we present the research results of learning history using KASTALIA compared by the traditional teaching method using the school textbook in electronic format. KASTALIA is an educational hypermedia environment for learning archaic history and art. The special characteristics of the environment are the organization of the complex historical information, the context in which the hist...

The China Historical GIS project is developing a set of free tools and datasets covering the geographic space that has, at one time or another, been nominally part of China. The idea is to provide a generic digital platform for historical places that can be seamlessly integrated with a wide variety of contemporary GIS data, but which is not tied to a single data source. The CHGIS data model ena...

the sources have made little reference to ḥusayn b. rūḥ nawbakhtī (d. 326/938), a relative of nawbakhtī household, who was known to the imāmī shī‘as as the third deputy of the twelfth imam, or they have made no reference to his personality dimensions. the issue this article deals with is whether his specific deputyship has been addressed in the earlier sources including the historical, theologi...