Tur (; fa, تور, ) is a character in the
Persian epic
Shahnameh
The ''Shahnameh'' or ''Shahnama'' ( fa, شاهنامه, Šāhnāme, lit=The Book of Kings, ) is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 5 ...
. He is the second son of the legendary
Iranian
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* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
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king
Fereydun and brother of both
Salm
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and
Iraj. His name, meaning "brave", was given to him by his father when the young prince bravely fights the
dragon
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that had attacked him and his brothers. When Fereydun divides his empire among his sons, he gives
Turkistan and
China
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to his second son Tur. This is the beginning of the nation of
Turan, the neighbor and rival of the Iranians. Some of the most important characters of Shahnameh, such as
Afrasiab
Afrasiab ( fa, ''afrāsiyāb''; ae, Fraŋrasyan; Middle-Persian: ''Frāsiyāv, Frāsiyāk'') is the name of the mythical king and hero of Turan. He is the main antagonist of the Persian epic Shahnameh, written by Ferdowsi.
The mythical kin ...
, are his descendants. He was killed by
Manuchehr
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.
Family tree
See also
*
Turan
*
Aniran
External links
A king's book of kings: the Shah-nameh of Shah Tahmasp an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Tur
Pishdadian dynasty
Mythological princes
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