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Identifier: cu31924028627036 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. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: regarding the history of the city for a longtime after the Sasanian period. Although mentioned by theArab geographers Al-Hamadhani, Ibn Rostah, and Yakut,already referred to, no allusion is made to it by Pietro dellaValle, who must have passed near it on his journey throughthis plain three hundred years ago (1617).* There are nativerecords, however, including poetical accounts in Kurdish, whichgive the history 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. Ka^^aSTji^, see Isidorus Chara-name of the town varies between cenus, Mansiones Farthicae, 5, ed.Karmasin and Kirmism. MuUer, Paris, 1855, 1882 ; and of. de 2 Yakut, p. 438. For the tradition Morgan, Mission Scientifique, 2. 100.about Bahrain IV, see Justi, Grundr. * For the itinerary of Pietro dellairan. Philol. 2. 525-526, and for the Valles journey in this region, seereign of Kobad (Kavadh), 2. 531. the edition of Pinkerton, 9. 16 seq.

Text Appearing After Image: o H a H fi ■< a DO HiOw fi 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 hiindred 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 b

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