INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
four gangs of illegal excavators in various operations conducted in Galugah county of Mazandaran province, a provincial police commander
to the judicial system for further investigation and trial, the commander added.Mazandaran (also known as Tabarestan) has long been a cradle
of civilization since the beginning of the first millennium BC
According to the Britannica Encyclopedia, it was almost overrun in about 720 CE by the Arab raiders.Its insecure eastern and southeastern
borders were crossed by Mongol invaders in the 13th and 14th centuries
Cossacks attacked the region in 1668 but were repulsed
It was ceded to the Russian Empire by a treaty in 1723, but the Russians were never secure in their occupation
The area was restored to Iran under the Qajar dynasty
The northern section of the region consists of a lowland alongside the Caspian and an upland along the northern slopes of the Alborz
