Hamedān

Hamedān was a city on Mount Alvand in western Iran, on the site of ancient Ecbatana. After the Ilkhanate collapsed in 1335, its governor Mahmud ibn Isan Qutlugh joined the claimant Togha Temür.

Timur's armies destroyed Hamedān, but the city revived under the Safavids. Kurdish tribes seized it in 1719; the Ottomans held it briefly in the eighteenth century before Nader Shah recovered it.