Editing Kavad I (section)

=== Building projects ===
[[Image:Derbent wall.jpg|thumb|alt=Photograph showing the wall at the Fortifications of Derbent with city buildings in the background | The [[Fortifications of Derbent|walls]] of [[Derbent]]]]
Many places were founded or re-built under Kavad. He is said to have founded the city [[Eran-asan-kerd-Kawad]] in [[Media (region)|Media]];{{sfn|Schindel|2013a|pp=136–141}} [[Fahraj, Yazd|Fahraj]] in [[Spahan (province)|Spahan]];{{sfn|Langarudi|2002}} and Weh-Kawad, Eran-win(n)ard-Kawad, Kawad-khwarrah, and [[Arrajan]] in [[Pars (Sasanian province)|Pars]].{{sfn|Schindel|2013a|pp=136–141}}{{sfn|Gaube|1986|pp=519-520}} He rebuilt [[Kermanshah|Kirmanshah]] in Media, which he also used as one of his residences.{{sfn|Calmard|1988|pp=319-324}} He is also said to have founded a township in [[Meybod]], which was named Haft-adhar ("seven fires"), because of a Zoroastrian [[fire temple]] being established there. Its original fire was created by fire brought from seven other temples in Pars, Balkh, [[Adurbadagan]], [[Nisa, Turkmenistan|Nisa]], [[Spahan]], [[Ghazni]], and Ctesiphon.{{sfn|Modarres}}

In the [[Caucasus]], Kavad had new [[Fortifications of Derbent|fortifications]] built at [[Derbent]],{{sfn|Kettenhofen|1994|pp=13–19}} and ordered the construction of the [[Sasanian defense lines#Apzut Kawat and Beshbarmak|Apzut Kawat wall]] ([[Middle Persian]]: ''*Abzūd Kawād'', "Kavad increased [in glory]" or "has prospered").{{sfn|Gadjiev|2017a}} The prominent [[Caucasian Albania]]n capital of [[Barda, Azerbaijan|Partaw]], which had been rebuilt during the reign of Peroz I and named Perozabad ("the city of Peroz"), was fortified by Kavad and called Perozkavad ("victorious Kavad").{{sfn|Chaumont|1985|pp=806-810}} The former Albanian capital of [[Qabala|Kabala]], a large urban area that included the headquarters of one of the Albanian bishops, was also fortified by Kavad.{{sfn|Gadjiev|2017b|pp=124-125}} He founded the city of [[Beylagan (city)|Baylakan]], which by most researchers is identified with the ruins of Oren-kala.{{sfn|Gadjiev|2017b|pp=125}} Ultimately, these extensive buildings and fortifications transformed Caucasian Albania into a bastion of Iranian presence in the Caucasus.{{sfn|Gadjiev|2017b|pp=128-129}}