Name
The name of the city literally means Castle of Shirin. Shirin (Beauty/Sweet) is the name of the wife of Khosrow Parviz (reigned 590-628).
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Famous quotes containing the word name:
“Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I think so.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would be the same.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)