One ruler of this region kidnapped the sitting Roman emperor Valerian in battle. A poet used this region's language to describe a reed pipe torn from an osier-bed in six books of Spiritual Couplets. Matthew Arnold adapted a legend from this area in which Sohrab is killed by his father Rostam, which appears in a national epic translated Book of Kings. The Sassanids were a dynasty of this region, where "a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou" were written into the quatrains of the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam. For 10 points
One ruler of this region kidnapped the sitting Roman emperor Valerian in battle. A poet used this region's language to describe a reed pipe torn from an osier-bed in six books of Spiritual Couplets. Matthew Arnold adapted a legend from this area in which Sohrab is killed by his father Rostam, which appears in a national epic translated Book of Kings. The Sassanids were a dynasty of this region, where "a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou" were written into the quatrains of the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam. For 10 points, name this historical carpet-making region whose ruler, the shah, was deposed in 1979 by an Islamic Republic.
One ruler of this region kidnapped the sitting Roman emperor Valerian in battle.
Persia [or Iran; or Fars]