The Paj Village is the birthplace of the renowned Iranian poet Ferdowsi (Abul-Qasem Ferdowsi Tusi) the author of Shahnameh ("Book of Kings") which is the world's longest epic poem created by a single poet, and the national epic of Greater Iran.
Ferdowsi was born into a family of Iranian landowners (dehqans) in 940 in the village of ...