Tabran was the ancient part of the city of

Tus Tus or TUS may refer to: * Tus (biology), a protein that binds to terminator sequences * Thales Underwater Systems, an international defence contractor * Tuscarora language, an Iroquoian language, ISO 639-3 code Education * Technological Univ ...

, north east of

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. Ancient Tus was located in the area between Binalud mountains in south and Hezar Masjid mountains in north. Tus was divided into four cities, Tabran, Radakan, Noan and Teroid. The whole area which today is only called Tus was the largest city in the whole area in fifth century. What is left from ancient city of Tabran is the city's battlement, the citadel, the

Haruniyeh Dome Haruniyeh Dome (or simply Haruniyeh) is a historical monument in Tus, northeast Iran. Haruniyeh Dome is the oldest monument left in the city. This historic site is located about 600 meters from the tomb of Ferdowsi, famous Iranian poet. It is exc ...

, remnant of Tabran, grand mosque and finally garden and the renovated tomb of

Ferdowsi Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi ( fa, ; 940 – 1019/1025 CE), also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (), was a Persians, Persian poet and the author of ''Shahnameh'' ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poetry, epic poems created by a sin ...

. This city was the birthplace of Iran's famous poet Ferdowsi.

Tabran Battlemet

Tus battlement is a grand wall made of clay about six Km built around the city of Tabran. The wall remains today 24 km north of the city of

Meshed Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of Razavi Khorasan Province and has a po ...

. In the ancient days the wall used to have 106 towers and 9 gates of which 4 are recognizable. These fortifications used to hold some government buildings and temporarily royal residence.

Harooniye Monument

This monument is about 600 meters from the tomb of the famous Iranian poet Ferdowsi. It was built in the ninth century on the ruins of the city of Tabran. Just next to the building is a small monument of Imam Mohammad Ghazali a philosopher of the 12th century.

Remnants of Tabran's Grand Mosque

Archaeological excavations around Harooniye brought to surface the oldest mosque in Khorassn province and one of the first mosques of Iran. The remnants of the mosque, 96 meters length and 53 meters width is about 150 meters south west of Harooniye.مسجد جامع تابران مشهد
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