Baha’u’llah’s family came from Nur, a district in the Iranian province of
Mazandaran, the province in north Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea.
This province has high mountain peaks in the south descending to the northern
coastal plain bordering the sea. Because of the dense sub-tropical jungles of
the lower parts of the province (a stark contrast to the dry desert conditions
in much of the rest of Iran), it was always difficult area for invaders to
penetrate. Read
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- Moojan Momen ('Baha’u’llah: A Short Biography')
