Anshan (Persia)

For the Chinese city, see Anshan

Anšan or Anzan (Persian انشان Anšan, modern Tepe Malyan, Tal-e Malyan ), a site on the Iranian plateau, 36 km northwest of modern Shiraz in the Zagros mountains of the Fars province, southwestern Iran, was the original capital of Elam in the 3rd millennium BC. After the Elamite capital moved to Susa, Elamite kings still bore the title "King of Anšan and Susa".

Anšan fell under Achaemenid rule in the 7th century BC, captured by Teispes (675–640) who called himself "King of the City of Anšan". For another century, Anšan was a minor kingdom in the declining Elamite Empire, until the Achaemenids in the 6th century BC from Anšan embarked on a period of conquest, which became the nucleus of the Persian empire.

Not to be confused is modern Anzan (), some 50 km east of modern Ahar, East Azarbaijan, north-western Iran.

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