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Key facts
- Type
- Settlement
- Location
- Razavi Khorasan Province , Iran
- Condition
- In ruins
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- cultural property
- Country
- Iran
- Located in
- Mashhad County
- Official language
- Persian
- Elevation
- 1002
- Time zone
- UTC+03:30
- Image
- Irnh157-Przy Mausoleum Ferdousiego.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tus, Iran
- topic's main category
- Category:Tus, Iran
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Tus, Iran
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Tus, Iran
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Tus, Iran
- heritage designation
- Iranian National Heritage
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Encyclopedic overview
The vast Haruniyeh Dome in Tus. Some say it is the tomb of Ghazali, but this is disputed.
Tus (Persian: توس, romanized: Tūs) is an ancient city in Khorasan near Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. To the ancient Greeks, it was known as Susia (Ancient Greek: Σούσια). It was also known as Tusa. Tus was divided into four cities, Tabran, Radakan, Noan and Teroid, which in combination formed largest city in the region in the fifth century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.