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Babolsar () is a city in the Central District of Babolsar County, Mazandaran province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. It is along the Caspian Sea.
Herodotus mentions the Amardi people tribe (mardes) alongside the Daens (daens), Derbices (dropiques), and Sagartians (sagarties) as nomadic and desert-dwelling Persians. Pliny the Elder, a Greek historian, identified the location of the Amardi in the eastern part of Merv. Strabo (63 BCE) described the Amardi alongside the Tapurians, Cadusii, and Cyrtii as mountain-dwelling tribes of northern Iran. Strabo wrote: "All regions of this country are fertile except the part towards the north, which is mountainous and rugged and cold, the abode of the mountaineers called Cadusii, Amardi, Tapyri, Cyrtii, and other such peoples, who are migrants and predatory."Strabo (11.13.3)
According to Vasily Bartold, the Tabari people lived in the southeastern part of the province and were under Achaemenid rule. The Amardi people were defeated by Alexander the Great and later by the Parthians, who resettled them near Ray in the 2nd century BCE. The former lands of the Amardi were granted to the Tapurians. Ptolemy, in his description of Daylam (eastern Gilan), mentioned the Tabari people. According to Yahya Zoka, in "Karvand Kasravi," it is stated that the Amardi or Mardians, during Alexander the Great's campaign in Iran, resided in Mazandaran, and at that time, the Tapurians had not yet arrived.Ancient Iran: Medes and Amardi. Karvand Kasravi, a collection of articles and treatises by Ahmad Kasravi, edited by Yahya Zoka According to Mojtaba Minovi, the Amardi and Tapuri tribe lived in Mazandaran Province, with the Tapurians residing in the mountainous areas and the Amardi in the plains. In 176 BCE, Phraates I relocated the Amardi to the Khwar region, and the Tapurians took over the entire Mazandaran area, which was then named Tapuristan.
The city acquired its current name in 1927. The city's historic name is Mašhad-e Sar or Mashhadsar, meaning "the special way to Mashhad, referring to the only road connecting the northwest of Iran to the northeast, including Mashhad, which passed through Babolsar. By the 18th century, Babolsar had become a busy commercial port. During the reign of Nadir Shah, it was the base for Iran's Caspian fleet. By 1909, the port yielded 12 percent of the total customs revenue of Iran. However, by 1895, ports in Gilan were already competing with Babolsar.
During Reza Shah's reign, Babolsar lost much of its remaining trade to the new port of Bandar-e Shah at the terminus of the trans-Iranian railroad. The cargo handled at Babolsar in the years of 1935 and 1936 was only 25,000 tons. A modern quarter and a hotel were built during this period. The end of World War II brought a new era of vitality to the city as a summer seaside resort for people from Iran, which gave rise to a new phase of rapid expansion. Babolsar's population increased from about 3,500 in 1946 to 11,781 in 1966 and 18,810 in 1976.
Babolsar coastal boulevard
Along this 4-kilometer boulevard, a place for public sports, jogging or running, street basketball, table tennis, bicycle riding and other sports has given this green boulevard in the west of Babul Rud a special vitality and there are 10 beach parking lots, a beach hotel at the end of the boulevard and a delicious street in the 4th parking lot and many attractions.
Sea buses
One of the most important tourist attractions of Babolsar is the presence of sea bus stops next to Babolrud. These sea buses take tourists from Babolrud to the sea side and explore the sea for less than an hour.
Pedestrian cable-stayed bridge
This bridge is 92 meters long, 5 meters wide, has two pylons with a height of 18 meters. One of the most unique tourist attractions that takes place from mid-autumn to late winter in Babulrud is the presence of a multitude of seagulls that create beautiful landscapes with their gathering and movement. Generous people on the cable bridge also crystalize the visual beauty by giving bread crumbs and food that is accompanied by the rotation of seagulls.
Important shopping centers in Babolsar
Two traditional markets (bazar) in the city center on Shahid Rajaee street- Palm line shopping center facing Khazarshahr - Persia shopping center - Tetis (Saleh) shopping center - Negin shopping center - Semi-finished Europe shopping center - Bozorgmehr shopping Center- Iran Katan store - Family clothing store- Babol carpet store and there are many stores in the west of Babolsar city on Pasdaran Street and from Moalem Square to near Fereydunkenar city and other cases.
Significant number of towers
The presence of a significant number of towers in the city of Babolsar has given this city a modern face, Although environmental standards must be observed.
UMZ has now about 12,000 students who are currently studying at undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels and over 400 faculty members teaching and researching at different faculties of the university.
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