Arak اراک

Arak, founded in 1808 as Sultanabad on the plain of Farahan in western Iran, became the country's main centre of commercial carpet production for export from the 1880s, after the Manchester firm Ziegler & Co. began organising village weaving there; by 1894 the district had thousands of looms. It remained the leading export centre until at least 1940.

Also Sultanabad · Soltanabad · Arāk

See also Sarouk, Farahan, Mahal, Mushkabad, Lilihan

Last reviewed November 2026