Turaythith

Turaythith, better known as Torshiz, was a town and district of Quhistan in western Khorasan. Its medieval site lay west of Kashmar, in a region of cultivated land between mountain and desert. The geographer al-Muqaddasi praised the wealth of its Friday Mosque and its busy market, while later writers remembered the town as a centre of Persian learning. The poet Zohuri was associated with Torshiz in his youth before leaving Khorasan for Yazd and Shiraz. In 1580 he travelled to India, where his Persian verse found patrons at the courts of the Deccan. The name of his native region remained attached to him even as his career carried him far beyond it.