Legendary background

The entire territory from the northernmost districts of sabzevar such as 

Darab Ramshin and Jovain to the southernmost hamlets such as salm abad , kumesh,kuhmaci, rudab, kizur,Aryan, and kizghan to the easternmost districts such as khosrogerd,kaykhosro,and shirkhan to the westernmost regions such as bahman abad ,khosro abad ,and khosroshir is have been the origin of the keyan dynasty and that is why sabzevar is known to be the territory of the keyans concurrent with the migrarion of Aryan to this place ,the natives of sabzevar were host to an inflox of new settlers and thus ,sabzevar shares countless cultural commonalties with the indo –European and Indo – Iranian cultures .such names as Ribas,Rivand and hoom testify to this fact .sabzevar has also served to be the terrirory of Zoroaster the prophet who set up the grand azarbar zarrin mehr fire temple in this city as a symbol of good deed,good word and good thought.In short, Sabzevar is by all means,the unknown mythical center of Khorasan province which has also been finely reflected in the prominent Iranian poet Ferdowsi's book "Tale of the Kings".