Persepolis, the ancient capital of Persia, represented now by its ruins, which stand 25 m. from the NW. shores of Lake Niris, on the banks of the Murghab River, though in its palmy days it was described as “the Glory of the East.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Persephone * Perseus