伊朗萨法维时期驿站建设及功用

The Construction and Function of Caravanserais in Safavi Period of Iran

驿站是欧亚大陆交通和贸易线路的基础设施。伊朗历史上的驿站以及驿站制度源远流长,萨法维王朝时期驿站的建设规模最大、数量最多且分布更加合理,形成了四通八达的驿站网络。驿站在社会、文化、宗教、政治、军事、经济等方面发挥作用,功能更加多元。发达完备的驿站网络对萨法维时期民族国家的构建和全国统一市场的形成提供了基本保障,也为萨法维王朝积极发展对外贸易,有效参与和融入早期世界市场和全球贸易体系提供了交通条件。

The caravanserai was the infrastructure of transportation and trade routes in Eurasia. The caravanserai and its system have a long history in Iran. During the Safavi period, the construction scale and the number of caravanserais was the largest, and the distribution was more reasonable, forming a caravanserai network extending in all directions. The caravanserai played an important role in society, culture, religion, politics, military, economy and so on, whose functions were more diversified. The well-developed and complete caravanserai network not only provided the basic guarantee for the construction of the nation state and the formation of the national unified market in the Safavi period, but also provided transportation conditions for the Safavi Dynasty to actively develop foreign trade and effectively participate in and integrate into the early world market and the global trade system.