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Nishapur (Persian: نیشاپور, also نیشابور ⓘ) [a] is a city in the Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
The city of Nishapur, founded in northeastern Iran around the third century CE, grew to new prominence in the eighth century and flourished during the early Islamic periods. Largely damaged by invasions and earthquakes in the thirteenth century, the city is today a relatively small town known as Neyshabur.
The city of Nishapur, located in eastern Iran, was a place of political importance in medieval times and a flourishing center of art, crafts, and trade. Excavated by the Iranian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum in 1935–40 and again in 1947, the site yielded a wealth of artifacts.
Nishapur is a city in northeastern Iran that was founded around the third century A.D., grew to prominence in the eighth century, and was ruined by invasions and earthquakes in the thirteenth century.
Abū Ḥāmid bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (c. 1145 – c. 1221; Persian: ابوحمید بن ابوبکر ابراهیم), better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn (فریدالدین) and ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur (عطار نیشاپوری, Attar means apothecary), was an Iranian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and S...
Nishapur pottery, Islāmic ceramics produced at Nishapur (modern Neyshābūr, Iran) that were of bold style and showed links with Sāssānian and Central Asian work.
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Sep 17, 2010 · Historical Geography and History to the Beginning of the 20th Century. Nishapur (Nišāpur) was, with Balḵ, Marv and Herat, one of the four great cities of the province of Khorasan.
