Beyza is a city in and the capital of Beyza District

Beyza District

Beyza District is a district in Sepidan County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 36,694, in 8,565 families. The District has one city: Beyza....

, in Sepidan County

Sepidan County

Sepidan County is a county in Fars Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Ardakan. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 87,801, in 20,127 families. The county is subdivided into three districts: the Central District, Beyza District, and Hamaijan District. The county has three...

, Fars Province, Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

. At the 2006 census, its population was 3,593, in 845 families.

Beyza's ancient name was Nesayak or Nesa. Linguists derive this name from the Parthia

Parthia

Parthia is a region of north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasty, rulers of the Parthian Empire....

n word Ns'yk meaning "bright, shining". Arabs during their invasion of Iran translated this name in Arabic Bayda which also means "bright and white". The ancient Elamite city of Anshan

Anshan (Persia)

Anshan - History :Before 1973, when it was identified as Tall-i Malyan, Anshan had been assumed by scholars to be somewhere in the central Zagros mountain range....

 is sometimes believed to have been situated there. Legend attributes its foundation to Gushtasb.