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Tus

also: طوس, Tus, Khorasan

Ancient city of Khorasan near Khayyam's Nishapur, seat of old Iranian kingship and Ferdowsi's home; some readers take the name in §52 as the Shahnameh hero Tus instead — the royal-glory sense is the same.

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The Rubaiyat poem · 2 mentions

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