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In the early eighteenth century this fantastic city, then the size of London, started to decline.
The Afghans invaded ; ;
the Safavids fell from power ; ;
the capital went elsewhere ; ;
the desert encroached.
Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.
They think of it as a kind of spooky museum in which they may half see and half imagine the old splendor.
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