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In 518 BC, Persepolis was built as the new capital of the Achaemenids in Persia. Persepolis is located in the north of Marvdasht city, north of Fars province (northeast of Shiraz).

The founder of Persepolis was Darius the Great, but after him his son Xerxes and his grandson Ardashir I expanded this complex and this building has been inhabited for about 200 years.