Zaranj - زرنج
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The metropolis (qaṣaba) of Sijistān/Sistān province. “Its ruins lie a few miles north of what was in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the administrative centre of Persian Sīstān, Nuṣratābād or Nāṣirābād, modern Zābul. Its remaining traces are visible within the vast ruined site known as Nād-i ʿAlī, to the east of the present course of the Hilmand river [q.v.] before it peters out in the Hāmūn depression [see zirih ] just inside Afg̲h̲an Sīstān.” 2
Names
- زرنج1
- Zarang
- Zaranj
Place Type
settlement
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 30.95962° Long. 61.86037°3
Descriptions
“واما سجستان فانها كورة متصلة العمارة، منقطعة المساكن، قليلة المدن، كثيرة القصور، ومعدن النخيل والحيات. قصبتها زرنج ومن مدنها كوين، زنبوك، فره، درهند، قرنين، كواربواذا، بارنواذ، كزه، سنج، باب الطعام، كروادكن نه، الطاق.” 1
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Works Cited
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- 1 Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī, Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, pp: 297.
- 2 P. Bearman (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
- 3 Marc Wick (ed.), "http://sws.geonames.org/1120985," GeoNames
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“Zaranj - زرنج .” In The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer, edited by Haya Al Thani, Saif al-Murikhi, Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn, Abdul Rahman Chamseddine and Mario Kozah. Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, 2020. Entry published January 10, 2020. https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5531.About this Entry
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- 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
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn
- Al-Muqaddasī data collection by Abdul Rahman Chamseddine
- Data merging and XML by William L. Potter
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