Amol

Amol, in the Tabaristan region (modern Mazandaran) on the Caspian coast of northern Iran, was the chief city of that region in the early Islamic period. The great historian and Qur'an commentator al-Tabari (d. 923), author of the universal History and the major tafsir, was born in Amol and took the nisba al-Tabari from Tabaristan.