Rashkan castle is a formerly castle in north of Rey, Iran. It located near Cheshmeh Ali

Cheshmeh-Ali (Shahr-e-Rey)

Cheshmeh-Ali is an ancient recreational place, located in the south of Tehran and north of Rey. The spring is spot in the neighborhood of Ebn-e Babooyeh, Tughrul Tower, and below the Rashkan castle and next to Fath Ali shah inscription....

, Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine and Fath Ali shah inscription (Cheshmeh-Ali)

Fath Ali shah inscription (Cheshmeh-Ali)

Fath Ali shah inscription is located in Cheshmeh-Ali in Rey, Iran. This work is one of the several inscriptions made in the Fath Ali Shah era, located on Cheshmeh-Ali hill. Fath Ali shah inscription is spot in north of Rey near Cheshmeh-Ali park and beneath the Rey defensive wall....

. The castle was intended to hold Rey, Iran

Rey, Iran

Rey or Ray , also known as Rhages and formerly as Arsacia, is the capital of Rey County, Tehran Province, Iran, and is the oldest existing city in the province....

. Rashkan castle was erected with plaster

Plaster

Plaster is a building material used for coating walls and ceilings. Plaster starts as a dry powder similar to mortar or cement and like those materials it is mixed with water to form a paste which liberates heat and then hardens. Unlike mortar and cement, plaster remains quite soft after setting,...

 of lime and ashes

Wood ash

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 or sand

Sand

Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.The composition of sand is highly variable, depending on the local rock sources and conditions, but the most common constituent of sand in inland continental settings and non-tropical coastal...

 with stone

STONe

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s. It was built during the Parthian rule

Parthia

Parthia is a region of north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasty, rulers of the Parthian Empire....

 of Persia. ‎

Etymology

The name comes from Arsaces I of Parthia

Arsaces I of Parthia

Arsaces I was the founder of the Arsacid dynasty, and after whom all 30+ monarchs of the Arsacid empire officially named themselves. A celebrated descent from antiquity begins with Arsaces.A 1st century AD tradition casts Arsaces as descending from the 5th-century BC Achaemenid monarch...

, the first king

King

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 of the Parthians. Some war items have been found there, now housed in the National Museum of Iran

National Museum of Iran

The National Museum of Iran is a museum in Tehran, Iran. It is the combination of two museums, the old Muze-ye Irân-e Bâstân , and the modernistic white travertine National Arts Museum , inaugurated in 1972...

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