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Key facts
- Type
- Settlement
- Location
- Razavi Khorasan Province , Iran
- Condition
- In ruins
via Wikipedia infobox
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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.