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    Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Nishapur is the second-largest...
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    publications[citation needed] document its own Nishapur ceramics from those excavations. For half a century after 1945 the site of Nishapur was ransacked to feed the international...
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    Nishapur County (Persian: شهرستان نیشاپور) is in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Nishapur, the second largest city in the province...
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  • Kiana or Kiana of Nishapur also The Seven-year-old Kiana (2009–2016) was an Iranian seven-year-old Preschool student from Nishapur. She was kidnapped...
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    and ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur (عطار نیشاپوری, Attar means apothecary), was an Iranian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense...
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    campaign of Khorasan. Ahmad Shah intended to advance on Mashhad and then Nishapur to bring the cities to submission. The campaign began in the summer of...
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  • The Battle of Nishapur occurred in 1038 when the Seljuk Turks scored a victory over the Ghaznavid army at Nishapur. In 1035 the Seljuk Turks defeated the...
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  • The Battle of Nishapur was fought in 652 between the Karen family and the Rashidun Caliphate along with their allies, the Kanārangīyān family. In 651,...
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    of Nishapur (or also: Baghmeli of Nishapur, also Romanized as Bagh-e Meli of Nishapur; Persian:باغ ملی نیشابور lit. 'The national garden of Nishapur')...
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    History of Nishapur is an encyclopedia written in Arabic by Hakim Nishapuri (933 - 1014 CE) for an introduction of the city and the quarter of Nishapur in Khorasan...
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    The Khanate of Nishapur (Persian: خان‌نشین نیشابور), also known as the Qara Bayat Amirdom (امیرنشین قره‌ بیات‎), was a semi-independent state ruled by...
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    Neishapur train disaster was a large explosion in the village of Khayyam near Nishapur in Iran, on 18 February 2004. Nearly 300 people were killed and the entire...
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    forced to retreat after four months. In November 1750, he moved to siege Nishapur, but he was unable to capture the city and was forced to retreat in early...
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    Mongols killed more than 1,300,000 people in Merv and more than 1,747,000 in Nishapur. The total population of Persia may have dropped from 2,500,000 to 250...
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  • Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (category Muhaddiths from Nishapur)
    commonly known as Imam Muslim, was an Islamic scholar from the city of Nishapur, particularly known as a muhaddith (scholar of hadith). His hadith collection...
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    Roofed Bazaar of Nishapur (Persian: بازار سرپوش نیشابور) is a historical roofed Bazaar dating back to the Safavid Persia in Nishapur, Razavi Khorasan...
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    resistance. The region Khorasan contained Silk Road cities such as Merv, Nishapur, and Herat, which were among the largest and richest in the world. Tolui...
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  • Mashhad County Qaleh Now, Nishapur, a village in Nishapur County Qaleh Now, alternate name of Gardan, a village in Nishapur County Qaleh Now-ye Alireza...
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    Greater Khorasan (category History of Nishapur)
    deity). The province was often subdivided into four quarters, such that Nishapur (present-day Iran), Marv (present-day Turkmenistan), Herat and Balkh (present-day...
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    Nizami Ganjavi, The Divān of Hafez, The Conference of the Birds by Attar of Nishapur, and the miscellanea of Gulistan and Bustan by Saadi Shirazi, are written...
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    Omar Khayyam (category Mathematicians from Nishapur)
    to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and poetry.: 94  He was born in Nishapur, the initial capital of the Seljuk Empire, and lived during the period...
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  • who was born in Nishapur. He was a student of Al-Ghazali and was responsible for spreading his teachings of Shafite Law in Nishapur. Muhammad Ibn Yahya...
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    life, Bukhari faced claims the Quran was created, and was exiled from Nishapur. Subsequently, he moved to Khartank, near Samarkand. Sahih al-Bukhari is...
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  • University of Neyshabur, is a branch campus of Islamic Azad University in Nishapur, Iran. It is one of the largest universities by size and student enrolment...
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    exercise their faith freely under Sassanid rule. Two cities, Bishapur and Nishapur, are named after him. He particularly favoured Manichaeism, protecting...
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    Sistan. After facing defeat in battle near Pushang in 857, he fled to Nishapur, only to be captured by Ya'qub al-Saffar and sent to Sistan as a hostage...
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  • was stationed in Nishapur. Upon receiving these news Mahmud contested Ismail's right to the throne and divested his charge of Nishapur to his uncle Borghuz...
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    poets and philosophers such as Khoja Akhmet Yassawi, Rumi, and Attar of Nishapur (c. 1145 – c. 1221) greatly enhanced the spread of Islamic culture in Anatolia...
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    and garments, all enclosed in scrollwork. Nishapur had its own school of painting. Excavations at Nishapur show both monochromatic and polychromatic artwork...
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    orders with ruthless efficiency, assaulting the major cities of Merv, Nishapur, and Herat, and subjugating numerous others. Medieval chroniclers attributed...
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