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Ganzak
Vanished settlement · Iran
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.012, 46.193
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient town founded in northwestern Iran located south of Lake Urmia
History
Ganzak is an ancient town founded in northwestern Iran. The city stood somewhere south of Lake Urmia, and it has been postulated that the Persian nobleman Atropates chose the city as his capital. The exact location, according to Minorsky, Schippmann, and Boyce, is identified as being the ruins at Leylan, Malekan County in the Miandoab plain.