Beyzā

Beyza lies in the plain north of Shiraz, among the mountain chains of Fars. Medieval geographers described Bayza as a flourishing town with walls, a citadel and a Friday mosque; its fertile hinterland sent grain and fruit to Shiraz. The scholar and Qur'an commentator Bayzawi came from the town.

Bayza declined to a village in later centuries and appears only occasionally in historical accounts. At the end of the eighteenth century, fighting between the Zand and Qajar forces took place in its vicinity.