Qazvin

Qazvin is a city in IranIranIran is the modern country containing Shush, ancient SusaGlossary · Click to read the explanation, northwest of Tehran. It became a Safavid capital in the mid-sixteenth century, before the court moved to Isfahan near that century's end. It appears in the Seven Sleepers study because the Metropolitan Museum attributes a Falnama leaf depicting the Sleepers, dated to the 1550s, to Qazvin. This is a tentative museum attribution of the artwork's place of production, not a location for the narrative's cave. A photograph of the Chehel Sotun pavilion shows part of the city's heritage as seen today. ^{[1] [2]}