Hamadan

Persia / Iran — Mordechai/Esther tradition

Hamadan (ancient Ecbatana), in the Zagros highlands of western Iran, was a Median and later Persian capital and a major city of the medieval Jibal region. The philosopher-physician Ibn Sina (Avicenna, d. 1037) spent his final years there and is buried in the city, and the mystic Ayn al-Qudat al-Hamadhani (executed 1131) took his nisba from it.