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Mount Behistun
Mount Bisotoun (or Behistun and Bisotun) is a mountain of the Zagros Mountains range, located in Kermanshah Province, western Iran. It is located 525 km west of Tehran.
Cultural history
Mount Bisotoun, aka Bīsitūn (referring to the mountain and the nearby village), is a mountain with a rock precipice in the Zagros Mountains in Kermanshah, Iran. Darius I inscribed the flat rock face in three languages c. 500 BC, known as the Behistun Inscription.
Legends
A legend began around Mount Bisotoun, as written about by the Persian poet Nezami about a man named Farhad, who was a lover of Shirin.
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