KERMAN  , See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the above See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province, situated in 30° 17' N., 56° 59' E., at an See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation of 6too ft . Its See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population is estimated at 6o,000, including about 2000 Zoroastrians, too See also:

• JEWS
• JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)

Jews, and a few Shikarpuri See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians . Kerman has See also:

• POST

post and See also:

• TELEGRAPH (Gr. Tike, far, and rypaq5eiv, to write)

telegraph offices (Indo-See also:

• EUROPEAN

European Telegraph See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

Department), See also:

• BRITISH

British and See also:

• RUSSIAN

Russian consulates, and an agency of the Imperial See also:

• BANK

bank of See also:

• PERSIA

Persia . The neighbouring districts produce little See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain and have to get their supplies for four or five months of the See also:

• YEAR

year from districts far away . A traveller has stated that it was easier to get a See also:

• MANN, HORACE (1796-1859)

mann (61 lb) of See also:

• SAFFRON (Arab. za'faran)

saffron at Kerman than a mann of See also:

• BARLEY (Hordeum sativum)

barley for his See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse, and in 1879 See also:

• SIR

Sir A . Houtum-Schindler was ordered by the authorities to curtail his excursions in the province " because his horses and mules See also:

• ATE

ate up all the stock." Kerman manufactures See also:

• GREAT

great quantities of carpets and felts, and its carpets are almost unsurpassed for richness of texture and durability . The old name of the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city was Guvashir . Adjoining the city on hills rising 400 to 500 ft. above the See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain in the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east are the ruins of two See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient forts with walls built of See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun-dried bricks on See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone See also:

• FOUNDATIONS

foundations . Some of the walls are in perfect See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition . Among the mosques in the city two deserve See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• NOTICE

notice, one the Masjid i Jama, a See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of the Muzaffarid ruler Mubariz ed din Mahommed dating from A.H . 1349, the other the Masjid i Malik built by Malik Kaverd Seljuk (1041-1072) .