Amran

Amran is the capital city of the Phyridian Empire and, by some accounts, the largest city in the world. It stands in the imperial heartland of eastern Pelenaia, straddling the Mera River just before its estuary opens into Throne's Bay. 
Amran is home to the enormous palace complexes of the Imperial court, and the almost equally splendid palaces of the empire’s most powerful aristocratic families. Just as impressive are the grand temples of the city’s tessaraon (generously endowed over the centuries by various emperors seeking to please the gods or curry favor with the priesthoods), the expansive precincts of the imperial library, the huge citadel of the emperor’s battle-mages, the imposings fortresses and barracks of the XXXXXXXX [elite praetorian-like or janissery-like infantry forces based in the capital], the two colossal hippodromes that feed the population's passion for chariot-racing, and the many great domed bazaars and marketplaces of the city’s mercantile quarter. The distinctive architectural style of these great structures, with their gilt-covered domes and spires rising hundreds of feet into the air, has inspired Amran’s epithet “The Golden City”.
The overall plan of Amran's cityscape is as carefully designed as any of its individual edifices. The innermost district of the city is perfectly circular and just over a mile in diameter, triple-walled, and is occupied entirely by the imperial palaces and their grounds. It has twelve monumental gates spaced evenly around its circumference (the four largest of which are the meridian gates, or great processional gates, facing due north, south, east, and west) and a thirteenth sacred gate giving the imperial household direct access to the city's tessaraon. From this circular inner city and its great gates, an elaborate system of radial processional boulevards expand outward, with concentric districts and quarters spreading out between them. Every detail was drawn up in scrupulous accordance with the divine numerological and geometric precepts of (XXXXXXXXX Utara-vaati sacred numerology). Only the city's outermost quarters, beyond the outer walls, do not follow this strict pattern. They grew in ad-hoc fashion after this grand urban layout was completed, and thus are much less orderly and sprawl in a more chaotic fashion. 
Category:Cities and Towns