Neyshabur
Town (pop., 2006: 208,860), northeastern Iran. Its name derives from its founder, the
Sasanian king Sh
ap
ur I. One of the four great cities of the region of
Khorasan, it was the residence of the 5th-century S
as
anian king Yazdegerd II. It declined by the mid-7th century but flourished again under the
Tahirid (821 – 873) and S
am
anid (819 – 999) dynasties. It was the residence of the Selj
uq sultan
Toghrïl Beg in the 11th century but again declined in the 12th century. The tombs of the renowned poet and scholar
Omar Khayyam and the mystic poet Far
id al-D
in 'A
ttar are nearby.
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