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Natal, Iran
Village in Mazandaran, Iran From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Natal (Persian: ناتل, also Romanized as Nātal and Nātel)[1] is a village in Natel Kenar-e Olya Rural District, in the Central District of Nur County, Mazandaran province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 75, in 21 families.[2] It is located about 6 km southwest of the city of Nur.[3]
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History and archaeology
At the time of the Abbasid Caliphate, Natel was one of the major cities in Tabaristan and had a military garrison.[3] It was known in medieval sources as Nātil or Nātilah.[4] Three archaeological excavations were conducted under Abdolreza Mohajerinejad in 2008, 2010, and 2016.[3] Over 2,000 pieces of pottery were uncovered; most of them were dated to the 3rd through 6th centuries AH (roughly the 9th-12th centuries CE).[3] Pottery samples dating from the Ilkhanid and Timurid periods was much rarer.[3] Hanie Hossein-Nia Amirkolaei et al. described the pottery samples found at Natel as having "relatively good production quality and strength, but a lower level in terms of manufacturing technique and diversity of motifs".[3]
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