Mount Behistun

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Mount Behistun
Highest point
Coordinates	34°23′23″N 47°25′38″E / 34.389813°N 47.427263°E / 34.389813; 47.427263 (Mount Behistun, Kermanshah, Iran)
Naming
Native name	بیستون (Persian)
Geography
Mount Behistun Kermanshah province, Iran
Parent range	Zagros Mountains

Mount Bisotoun (or Behistun and Bisotun) is a mountain of the Zagros Mountains range, located in Kermanshah Province, western Iran. It is located 525 kilometers (326 mi) west of Tehran.

Mount Bisotoun, aka Bīsitūn (referring to the mountain and the nearby village), is a mountain with a rock precipice in the Zagros Mountains in Kermanshah, Iran. Darius I inscribed the flat rock face in three languages c. 500 BC, known as the Behistun Inscription.^[1]

A legend began around Mount Bisotoun, as written about by the Persian poet Nezami about a man named Farhad, who was a lover of Shirin.

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  Farhad Tarash at the base of Mount Behistun
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  Farhad Tarash at the base of Mount Behistun
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  Goudarz
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  Hercules Statue
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  Darius I the Great's inscription

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