The Daylamites or Dailamites were an Iranian people inhabiting the Daylam—the mountainous regions of northern Iran on the southwest coast of the Caspian Sea, now comprising the southeastern half of Gilan Province.
Rainforest on the western edge of Daylam.
Alamut Castle located to the southeast of Daylam in Alamut.
A depiction of a Daylamite cavalryman from an Iranian textbook.
Siege of Alamut (1256) depicted in Jami' al-tawarikh by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Division Orientale.
Gilan Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, in the northwest of the country. It lies along the Caspian Sea, in Iran's Region 3, west of the province of Mazandaran, east of the province of Ardabil, and north of the provinces of Zanjan and Qazvin. It borders Azerbaijan in the north.
Rudkhan Castle
Iran forests, Gilan
Beaker, 1100–1000 BC, Marlik
Rudkhan Castle