Nishapur, a town of the Persian province of Khorassan, 53 miles W. of Meshed, in a beautiful and fertile valley, has 11,000 inhabitants and a trade in turquoises. It was the birthplace, and contains the grave, of Omar Khayyám.
Nishapur
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 506–507
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