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Identifier: persiapastpresen01jack (find matches)
Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937
Subjects: Zoroastrianism
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
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of some of its wars in the eighteenth century,and since the nineteenth century the town has become better 1 The Arab pronunciation of the ^Gk. Kayu^aSTjj/Tj, seelsidorus Chara-name of the town varies between cenus, Mansiones Parthicae, 5, ed.Karmdsm and Kirmisin. Mtiller, Paris, 1855, 1882 ; and cf. de 2 Yakut, p. 438. For the tradition Morgan, Mission Scientifique, 2. 100.about Bahram IV, see Justi, Grundr. * For the itinerary of Pietro dellairan. Fhilol. 2. 525-526, and for the Valles journey in this region, seereign of Kobad (Kavadh), 2. 531. the edition of Pinkerton, 9. 16 seq.
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THE CITY OF KERMANSHAH 231 known to the West through trade and travel, although asregards familiarity its name can bear no comparison with Tehe-ran and Isfahan. Many persons, in fact, know of Kerman-shah only through the rugs for which the city and its vicinityonce were famous, even if the rug manufacture is almost a lostindustry now in Kermanshah itself and the carpets which areexported through its customs to-day come mostly from otherparts of Persia and are merely shipped by way of this dis-tributing-centre, i Commercially the city of Kermanshah is favorably situated,as it lies on the main caravan route between Persia and Meso-potamia, being nearly equidistant from Teheran and Baghdad,two hundred and twenty miles from the latter and two hundredand fifty miles from the former. The town enjoys the advan-tages of a busy trade, especially on commission, and its popu-lation is now reported at fully sixty thousand, the inhabitantsbeing largely of Kurdish blood, besides Persians, Turks,som

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