Urban settlements Ardabil region in the early and middle Islamic period

Abstract: According to the evidence and the proof of archeology, Ardebil area has been being located since 1th millennium before the Christ. All over the area covered up by old hills or in the other words residential areas which have been used to be village or town. According to the quality civilization of ancient this part of the country not only has been played a key role as connective area, but also as available primeval, this area has been continued in historical early days. As far as the information and historical evidence shows that, this area in attracting civilizations from one hand and transferring to the other hand and also distributing the civilization to the neighbor area has performed a vial role and in Tasmanian era period has been one of the most prominent centers and has get into high level success. Although, the found evidences and witnesses that is not adequate, there is no doubt that today the entire various ancient works due to previous civilization, has covered all the dessert and it seems Ardebil zone has been a connection between the obvious events and also has been the thorough and unique page of Iran history. Bajarvan, a town in the medieval Islamic province of Mūḡān (q.v.), i.e., the area southwest of the Caspian Sea and south of the Kor (Kura) and Aras (Araxes; qq.v.) rivers. Its site is unknown, but it must have lain in what is now the extreme northeastern tip of the modern Iranian province of Azerbaijan, to the south of the Aras (the modern frontier with the Azerbaijan SSR) and in the Ḵorūslūdāḡ region, for the medieval geographers place it 20 farsaḵs north of Ardabīl and 4 farsaḵs north of Barzand, the other main town of Mūḡān. In this study, we have considered the identity and archeological of residential locations of Ardebil area which has been totally disappeared at the moment and also try to analyze and dig into the specific facet of this area, therefore the present article is based on the deep discussion and investigation of vague and unclear events and discuss the topic with novel information which will be criticized and interpreted thoroughly and scientifically.

.Keywords: Ardabil, Bajarvan, Varsan, Oltan, Azerbaijan, Mugan, Aras