Qualla: Ancient City of Tabran https://qualla.com/ancient-city-of-tabran en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:32 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ancient City of Tabran https://qualla.com/ancient-city-of-tabran Ancient City of Tabran: Introduction https://qualla.com/ancient-city-of-tabran/ Ferdowsi spent thirty-three years writing the Shahnameh, the Book of Kings, a poem of fifty thousand couplets that traces Iran's story from the creation of the world to the Arab conquest. It is the longest epic poem ever written by a single author, and it saved the Persian language. The man who wrote it was born here, in Tabran, the ancient core of the city of Tus, twenty-four kilometers north of modern Mashhad. What remains of Tabran today is a circuit of clay walls, the bones of a citadel, a ninth-century dome, and the renovated tomb of its most famous son. The ruins are quiet now. But the words that came from this place still thunder.

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]]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/t/q/6/r/ancient-city-of-tabran-wp/tq6r-ancient-city-of-tabran-the-oldest-mosque-in-khorasan.mp3 0:06 4 full Ancient City of Tabran: The Poet's Country https://qualla.com/ancient-city-of-tabran/ Ferdowsi was born around 940 CE in a village near Tus. He began the Shahnameh to fund his daughter's dowry and spent more than three decades completing it, drawing on a prose compilation of Iranian mythical and historical narratives that had circulated in the region. The poem bec...

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