Kāshān - كاشان
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“(Ḳāsān, Ḳās̲h̲ān; 33°59′ lat. N., 51°27′ long. E.), a town of the D̲j̲ibāl, on the ancient N. — S. axial route of central Iran, chief town of a s̲h̲ahristān of the central province ( Ustān-i markazī ); it gives its name to an oasis adjoining the Das̲h̲t-i Kavīr on the N.E. and on the E., closed on the W. and on the S. by the buffer of the median chain of central Iran (3,900 m. at the Kūh-i Karkas).” 2
Names
- قاشان1
- كاشان
- Kāshān
- Qāshān
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
:
- Lat. 33.5° Long. 51.5°3
Descriptions
“واما مفازة خراسان فالذي يحيط بها من شرقيها حد كرمان وشيء من حدود سجستان وغربيها حدود قومس والرى وقم وقاشان وشماليها حدود خراسان وشيء من سجستان وجنوبيها حدود كرمان وفارس وشيء من حدود اصبهان” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad Ibn Ḥawqal, Kitāb al-masālik wa al-mamālik, pp: 287.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 3 Roger Bagnall et al. (eds.), "http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/890432541," Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places
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Additional Credit:
- Additional research from Encyclopedia of Islam and the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage by Tobias Scheunchen
- Data correction and integration from Ibn Battuta, al-Bakri, al-Tabari, Nasir Khusraw, Ibn Jubayr, Isho’yahb III, Al-Muqaddasī, Ibn Ḥawqal, Al-Masūdī, Yāqūt b. ʿAbdallāh al-Ḥamawī by Tobias Scheunchen
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Ibn Ḥawqal data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
- Data merging and XML by David A. Michelson
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