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Neyshabur

Town (pop., 2006: 208,860), northeastern Iran. Its name derives from its founder, the Sasanian king Shapur I. One of the four great cities of the region of Khorasan, it was the residence of the 5th-century Sasanian king Yazdegerd II. It declined by the mid-7th century but flourished again under the Tahirid (821 – 873) and Samanid (819 – 999) dynasties. It was the residence of the Seljuq 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 Farid al-Din 'Attar are nearby.

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