Mashhad
Mashhad (Persian: مشهد frae Arabic: مشهد, ‹Mašhad›, literally the place o martyrdom)[1][2] is the seicont lairgest ceety in Iran an ane o the holiest ceeties in the Shia Muslim warld. It is an aa the ae major Iranian ceety wi an Arabic name. It is locatit 850 kilometres (530 mi) east o Tehran, at the center o the Razavi Khorasan Province close tae the borders o Afghanistan an Turkmenistan. Its population wis 2,427,316 at the 2006 population census.[3]
Nou Mashhad is notably kent as the restin place o the Imam Reza. A shrine wis later built there tae commemorate the Imam, which in turn gave rise tae increasin demographic development.
Mashhad is an aa kent as the ceety o Ferdowsi, the eminent Iranian poet o Shahnameh, which is considered tae be the naitional epic o Iran.
[edit] Sister ceeties
Milan, Italy
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysie (October 2006)[4]
Lahore, Pakistan[5]
Fresno, Unitit States
[edit] References
- ↑ E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936 P.127
- ↑ The shiites: a short history, Heinz Halm, P.26
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedIran2006admRazKhor - ↑ "Mashad-Kuala Lumpur Become Sister cities", FARS News Agency, 2006-10-14. Retrieved on 23 September 2010..
- ↑ Leading News Resource of Pakistan. Daily Times (2007-03-02). Retrieved on 12 November 2010. .
