Masjed Soleyman
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Masjed Soleyman , city (1991 pop. 107,539), Khuzestan prov., SW Iran, on the Karun River. The site of the first discovery of petroleum in Iran (1908), it is now an oil-refining center.
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