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Mount Bisotoun (or Behistun and Bisotun) is a mountain of the Zagros Mountains range, located in Kermanshah Province, western Iran. It is located 525 kilometers (326 mi) west of Tehran.
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Cultural history[edit]
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.[1]
Legends[edit]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Qajar%2C_Persia%2C_19th_century%2C_Shirin_on_Horseback_Visiting_Farhad_on_Mount_Bisitun.jpg/220px-Qajar%2C_Persia%2C_19th_century%2C_Shirin_on_Horseback_Visiting_Farhad_on_Mount_Bisitun.jpg)
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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Farhad Tarash at the base of Mount Behistun
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Farhad Tarash at the base of Mount Behistun
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