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Place

Tashbaan

Also known as city of Tashbaan

The island capital of Calormen, crowded with palaces, gardens, traffic, and the court of the Tisroc. Shasta and Aravis pass through it while fleeing north.

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In the chronicles

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The Horse and His Boy28 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter I · paragraph 43… can make our plans. My Tarkaan is on his way north to the great city, to Tashbaan itself and the court of the Tisroc----"Open passage →
  2. Chapter I · paragraph 45…! And now, back to our plans. As I said, my human was on his way north to Tashbaan."Open passage →
  3. Chapter II · paragraph 22"I know my way to Tashbaan. After that comes the desert. Oh, we'll manage the desert somehow, never fear. Why, we'll be in sight of the No…Open passage →
  4. Chapter III · paragraph 10… the woods where my father supposed that I would go but north and east to Tashbaan.Open passage →
  5. Chapter III · paragraph 13…him himself, and that before the matter was discovered I should be beyond Tashbaan. And that is the pith of my story until this very night when I was chased by lions and met you at the swimming …Open passage →
  6. Chapter IV · paragraph 1… divided itself into two streams and on the island between them stood the city of Tashbaan, one of the wonders of the world. Round the very edge of the island, so that the water lapped against the stone…Open passage →
  7. Chapter IV · paragraph 12… well for you," whispered Aravis rather savagely. "What do you care about Tashbaan? But I ought to be riding in on a litter with soldiers before me and slaves behind, and perhaps going to a grea…Open passage →
  8. Chapter V · paragraph 3"It is this," said Edmund. "I do not think we shall find it easy to leave Tashbaan. While the Prince had hope that you would take him, we were honoured guests. But by the Lion's Mane, I think th…Open passage →
  9. Chapter V · paragraph 7…ith the Grand Vizier last night, it was the same. He asked me how I liked Tashbaan. And I (for I could not tell him I hated every stone of it and I would not lie) told him that now, when high su…Open passage →
  10. Chapter VI · paragraph 1…gs. Apparently he had now come over the crown of the island-hill on which Tashbaan is built. Everything sloped away before him, flat roofs below flat roofs, down to the towers and battlements of…Open passage →
  11. Chapter VI · paragraph 2…each side, it was deliciously fresh after the smell and heat and noise of Tashbaan.Open passage →
  12. Chapter VII · paragraph 20… darling, have you seen the barbarian queen from Narnia? She's staying in Tashbaan at present. They say Prince Rabadash is madly in love with her. There have been the most wonderful parties and …Open passage →
  13. Chapter VII · paragraph 40…ravelling with Shasta was really rather more fun than fashionable life in Tashbaan. So she only replied, "You forget that I'll be a nobody, just like him, when we get to Narnia. And anyway, I pr…Open passage →
  14. Chapter VIII · paragraph 36… if they do not wholly believe the letters, they will not dare to come to Tashbaan in arms to fetch her."Open passage →
  15. Chapter VIII · paragraph 54…t sons of kings, was beginning to be dangerous. More than five Tisrocs in Tashbaan have died before their time because their eldest sons, enlightened princes, grew tired of waiting for their thr…Open passage →
  16. Chapter IX · paragraph 17…had always lived in the country and had hated every minute of her time in Tashbaan.Open passage →
  17. Chapter IX · paragraph 36…"A bit left, a bit left," he sang out. Best of all, when you looked back, Tashbaan was already small and remote. The Tombs were quite invisible: swallowed up in that single, jagged-edged hump wh…Open passage →
  18. Chapter X · paragraph 8…t ridge Shasta turned in the saddle and looked back. There was no sign of Tashbaan; the desert, unbroken except by the narrow green crack which they had travelled down, spread to the horizon.Open passage →
  19. Chapter XI · paragraph 3Suddenly he heard a horn--not a great throbbing horn like the horns of Tashbaan but a merry call, Ti-ro-to-to-ho! Next moment he came out into a wide glade and found himself in a crowd of peo…Open passage →
  20. Chapter XI · paragraph 7…s head. "Not Prince Corin. I--I--know I'm like him... saw his Highness in Tashbaan ... sent his greetings."Open passage →
  21. Chapter XII · paragraph 36…ut of Arsheesh and from the pillared and carpeted halls in the palaces of Tashbaan. The roof was very low, and everything was made of wood and there was a cuckoo-clock and a red-and-white checke…Open passage →
  22. Chapter XII · paragraph 41…unded again: a new noise to Shasta, not huge and solemn like the horns of Tashbaan nor gay and merry like King Lune's hunting horn, but clear and sharp and valiant. The noise was coming from the…Open passage →
  23. Chapter XIII · paragraph 2…cted him in this, besides telling him all about their secret sailing from Tashbaan.Open passage →
  24. Chapter XIII · paragraph 20… times, what was going on in the streets of cities far further south than Tashbaan, or what ships were putting into Redhaven in the remote Seven Isles, or what robbers or wild beasts stirred in …Open passage →
  25. Chapter XIV · paragraph 12…re worn long in Narnia. Really, Bree, you're as vain as that Tarkheena in Tashbaan!"Open passage →
  26. Chapter XIV · paragraph 19"All the stories about him in Tashbaan say he is," replied Aravis. "And if he isn't a lion why do you call him a lion?"Open passage →
  27. Chapter XV · paragraph 40…e of Tash you shall be healed. You must stand before the altar of Tash in Tashbaan at the great Autumn Feast this year and there, in the sight of all Tashbaan, your ass's shape will fall from yo…Open passage →
  28. Chapter XV · paragraph 43…urse we shall be delighted to provide your Highness with shipping back to Tashbaan for the--er--treatment which Aslan has prescribed. You shall have every comfort which your Highness's situation…Open passage →
The Last Battle2 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter VIII · paragraph 5… was no older than thou, and had gone as a guest to the Tisroc's court in Tashbaan. He took me into the great temple of Tash. There I saw it, carved above the altar."Open passage →
  2. Chapter XVI · paragraph 37…elescope. She could see the whole southern desert and beyond it the great city of Tashbaan: to eastward she could see Cair Paravel on the edge of the sea and the very window of the room that had once be…Open passage →
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PlaceCalormen

A large southern empire ruled by the Tisroc, with Tashbaan as its capital.

→CharacterAravis

A young Calormene Tarkheena who flees an arranged marriage with her mare Hwin.

→CharacterRabadash

The proud crown prince of Calormen who attempts to seize Queen Susan and later invades Archenland.

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