Al Māmtir

Mamtir stood in the fertile Caspian lowlands of Mazandaran, amid fields and wooded country watered by rivers descending from the Alborz. In early Safavid times a settlement called Barforush grew on the site of the older town. Shah Abbas I favoured it and built a royal garden there, known as Bagh-e Shah or Bagh-e Eram. Its bazaar made the town an important centre for the produce of the surrounding region.