Selasal Castle

Complex irrigation system from the Sassanid era, island city Shushtar, Iran

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Persian. (January 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the Persian article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Persian Wikipedia article at [[:fa:قلعه سلاسل]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fa|قلعه سلاسل}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Location of Selasal Castle in Iran

Salasel Castle, (Persian: قلعه سلاسل) is a historical fortress and World Heritage Site. It's part of Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System, located in the island city Shushtar, Khouzestan, Iran from the achaemenid era. Salasel Castle was registered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 2009 and is Iran's 10th cultural heritage site to be registered on the United Nations' list together with the 12 other historical bridges, dams, canals, and buildings as Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System. The castle is situated on the top of a mountain and features multiple levels, secret tunnels, and various defensive structures, including walls and towers.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

^ Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System". UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
^ "Shushtar Hydraulic System: The Oldest Engineering Masterpiece in World - Tourism news". Tasnim News Agency.
^ "Water and water supply technologies in ancient Iran". Evolution of Water Supply Throughout the Millennia (PDF). IWA Publishing. 14 April 2012. pp. 92–126. ISBN 9781843395409.
^ https://whc.unesco.org/document/152341 ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ SHUSHTAR HISTORICAL HYDRAULIC SYSTEM, World heritage nomination document,2008