Gilan Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, in the northwest of the country and southwest of the Caspian Sea. Its capital is the city of Rasht. The province lies along the Caspian Sea, in Iran'
Rudkhan Castle
Beaker, 1100–1000 BC, Marlik
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 Gi
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.