Regional and Imperial capitals of Persia (Iran):
Anshan; early Achaemenid era
Ardabil; early Safavid era
Babylon; Achaemenid era
Baghdad; caliphates, Jalayerid, Buyid
Bukhara; Taherid dynasty, Samanid
Ctesiphon; Parthian, Sassanid era
Damghan; Parthian era
Firouzabad; Sassanid era
Isfahan; Seljuk, Safavid era
Hamedan or ("Ecbatana"); Median Empire, Achaemenid era, Seljuks (Greater and Iraq Seljuks)
Kunya Urgench; early Khwarezmid era
Maragheh; Ilkhanid
Mashad; Afsharid
Merv; capital during al-Mamun's caliphate, and Taherid era
Nishapur; Ilkhanid, Seljuq, Taherid eras
Nisa, Turkmenistan; periodical capital of the Parthian era
Pasargadae; Achaemenid
Persepolis; Achaemenid
Rey; Median
Qazvin; early Safavid era
Samarkand; Khwarazmid, Timurid era
Shiraz; Buyid dynasty, Zand dynasty
Susa; Achaemenid, Parthian era
Tabriz; Ilkhanid, Khwarezmid, Safavid
Tehran; 1796–present