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Maragha

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Maragha, Iran: see Maragheh Maragheh , city (1991 pop. 117,388), East Azerbaijan prov., NW Iran, on the southern slopes of Mt. Sahand. It is the trade and transportation center of a fertile fruit-growing region; dried fruits are shipped from there. After the Arab conquest in the 7th cent.
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Mohamad Maragha the coordinator of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music explained that the project is part of the outreach programme of the conservatory.
And in the early 16th century, these came from Iraq, where the Maragha School, a group of Arab scholars named for the Maragha observatory in the arid mountains of western Iran, had for centuries produced the most accurate mathematical updates to the standard Ptolemaic model of planetary motion.
The Maragha observatory, he explains, was established in 1259 and continued in operation until about 1304.
 
 
 
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