Nishapur

Nishapur or Neyshābūr is an important and ancient city in the Razavi Khorasan province in northeastern Iran, situated in a fertile plain at the foot of the Binalud Mountains, near the regional capital of Mashhad. The name of the city come from Shapur I ,as the founder of this city in the 350 .Nishapur in the year 1000CE, it was among the 10 largest cities on earth.

Nishapur in the year 1000CE, it was among the 10 largest cities on earth.

scimitars frorn Nishapur, along whose captured arcs there seemed to persist still the wind and violence of battle.

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• Nishapur ,is the best cities of the Great Khorasan.
  • hadith

• scimitars frorn Nishapur, along whose captured arcs there seemed to persist still the wind and violence of battle.
  • The Shape of the Sword By Jorge Luis Borges

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• Nishapur began to assume major influence from the mid-ninth century A.D., becoming in the tenth through twelfth centuries one of the great political, commercial, and cultural centers in medieval Iran and the Islamic world.
  • Department of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Special mention should be made of the advanced development of the underglaze-painting technique seen in Nishapur’s ceramic wares...Nishapur was also an important center for the manufacture of glass, metal, and stone vessels as well as textiles.Architecture and architectural decoration were also highly developed at Nishapur.
  • Department of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• They told me that every morning,Strange stars, will appear in Nishapur's sky.One night, I wake up in the morning ...the star appear like a Peacock tail was shaped by the East Stand...
  • Mohammad Eslami Nodooshan

• I look at Nishapur in Iran is a great compact, urban myth among the clouds and the lighting on the morn that world is famous.
  • Mohammad Reza Shafi'i Kadkani

• Nishapur is the site link of iran and Islam.The superior quality and Historical and Islamic position of Nishapur ,It requires a special look to be seen today
  • Mohammad Khatami

• It is No city in the world as Nishapur been destroyed and is rebuilt and why is it that? Nishapur is the Home of various peoples and the Irani's key of victory.
  • Lawrence Lockhart

• Nishapur was a city of knowledge and innovation in the world or minimum in the Islamic World but the Mongol invasion change it to blood river.with Heads of men and women and children was built pyramids.
  • Sandra Maki

• The only city that had the ability to parity with Cairo, was Nishapur .
  • Nasir Khusraw