Tus, Iran (irn)

Tus, Iran

Tus, Iran ranks 1,811th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Muskegon, Michigan, Veliko Tarnovo, and Bloomsbury. Memorable people born in Tus, Iran include Al-Ghazali, Jabir ibn Hayyan, and Ferdowsi. Memorable people who died in Tus, Iran include Harun al-Rashid, Yazdegerd I, and Ali al-Ridha. Tus, Iran has been the birth place of many writers, and philosophers and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures. Tus, Iran is located in Iran.

Tus was an ancient city in Khorasan near the modern city of Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. To the ancient Greeks, it was known as Susia. It was also known as Tusa. The area now known as Tus was divided into four cities, Tabran, Radakan, Noan and Teroid, which in combination formed largest city in the region in the fifth century. Read more on Wikipedia