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Lahijan
Lahijan is a town in Gilan province in northern Iran, near the Caspian Sea. From the 14th to the 16th century it was the capital of the Karkiya dynasty, which sheltered the young Safavid leader Ismail there in the 1490s. In the 20th century it became the centre of Iranian tea growing.
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