Tus, Iran
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Tus is an ancient city in Khorasan near Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. To the ancient Greeks, it was known as Susia. It was also known as Tusa. Tus was divided into four cities, Tabran, Rada
Ferdowsi's tomb in Tus
Toos (ancient Susia) region
The vast Haruniyeh Dome in Tus. Some say it is the tomb of Ghazali, but this is disputed.
Tolui
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Tolui was the youngest son of Genghis Khan and Börte. A prominent general during the early Mongol conquests, Tolui was a leading candidate to succeed his father after his death in 1227 and ultimately
Tus, Iran
…historian Abu Nasr as-Sarraj. The Samanid poet Daqiqi was also a native of Tus. In 1220, Tus was sacked by the Mongol general, Subutai, and a year later Tolui would kill most of its populace, and destroying the tomb of Caliph Harun al-Rashid in the process. Tus was rebuilt in 1239 under the governorship of…
Depiction of Tolui from a 14th-century manuscript of Rashid al-Din's Jami' al-tawarikh
The walls of the city of Merv, which never recovered from the Mongol conquests; the tomb of Ahmad Sanjar can be seen through a gap in the ruined fortifications.
The mausoleum of Attar of Nishapur, a Persian poet who was killed during the sack of Nishapur, was built during the Timurid Renaissance in the 15th century.
Early 15th-century miniature of Genghis Khan advising his sons on his deathbed, taken from Marco Polo's section of the Livre des merveilles manuscript.