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Ferdowsi

Background
Ferdowsi was born in Pazh, a large village near the city of Tus (present-day Mashhad), located in the Khurasan region. His precise birthdate has not been documented, but based on his poems, it can be deducted that he was born in 940. He belonged to a family of landholders (dihqan), a class which had existed since the late period of the Sasanian Empire (224–651).