Jahrom

Jahrom appears in the Shahnameh again and again, usually at a turning point. When the defeated Dara falls back after his second battle with Eskandar, he goes first to Jahrom, where the keys of his treasuries are kept, and then on to Estakhr. Centuries later, when the young Ardashir has fled Ardavan's court and reached the sea, the first great lord to join him is Sabak, ruler of Jahrom, who comes with his seven sons and his army, kisses Ardashir's feet and swears loyalty on the Avesta. With his help Ardashir defeats Ardavan's son Bahman, and it is Sabak who washes the dead Ardavan's body and builds him a royal tomb.

Jahrom also produced Ardashir's most troublesome subject. While the king is pinned down by Haftvad and the worm, Mehrak, son of Nushzad, of Jahrom, sacks his palace. Ardashir later takes him at Jahrom and kills him with all his family except one daughter, who is hidden. Her story continues in Ardashir's reign, when the girl is found and marries his son Shapur.

In the reign of Bahram Gur, the Arab king Monzer marches thirty thousand spearmen from Yaman to the waterless plain of Jahrom, and there the Iranian nobles come to Bahram's ivory throne to argue about who should be king. It is from here that the matter goes to the ordeal of the two lions. When Bahram empties the miser Barahem's house, a thousand camels are fetched from the plain of Jahrom to carry it away. Late in the poem, in the last troubled years of the dynasty, the nobles call Farrokhzad from Jahrom to the throne. Jahrom is still a town of that name in the south of Fars province, known today for its date palms and citrus.