Determining the Position of Ahovan Caravansary in Silk Road Route

2012 
In Iranian countries and current Iran area and along its main and minor zones, there are signs of midway buildings, especially the works of Islamic era in our country and Caravansaries due to various designs and creation of architecture spaces indicating knowledge, art and creativity of Iranian architects in preindustrialization era, are of great importance. The distance of Caravansaries from each other was determined based on geographical and natural conditions of passing environment and calculation of one day trip for and some additional considerations. The highest distance in the plain in about 24 km and in mountainous roads, the distance was closer (Kiani, Mohammad Yousef, 1987). The remaining of the most important discussing roal is in the eastern half of the current Iran, in the distance between Ray-Serakhs. This road takes easternwestern length of Semnan province and there are many Caravansaries in the length over 500 km in this province. In this paper, we review two deserted examples of Iran cultural wealth called Ahovan Caravansaries and their location and their position in Silk Road.
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