merodasht

Updated: July 5, 2025

But Darius had chosen the site of his palace at some distance from the stronghold; where the river bent suddenly round a spur of the mountain, and watered a wider extent of land. The spur of the hill ran down, by an easy gradation, into the valley; and beyond it the hills separated into the wide plain of Merodasht that stretched southward many farsangs to the southern pass.

F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford - Marzio's Crucifix, and Zoroaster